Greig Leach

As the peloton went up the penultimate climb of Milano-Sanremo (the Capo Cipressa) Sam Oomen (Jumbo Visma) hit the front setting a hard pace for his team leader, Wout Van Aert. Van Aert was using the strategy that if the pace was super fast on this climb no one would be able to launch the traditional race winning attack. He was right. Lined out behind the two from Jumbo Visma were Ineos-Grenadiers including Luke Rowe, Tom Pidcock (in his race debute), and Michal Kwiatkowski. It was looking like it was either going to be an attack on the final climb of the Poggio or it would be down to a sprint finale.