Alpecin-Deceuninck confirm Milano-Sanremo team with Mathieu van der Poel and Jasper Philipsen starring
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World champion, Mathieu van der Poel's returning to road racing has now been officially confirmed for Milano-Sanremo on Saturday as Alpecin-Deceuninck become the latest team to announce their lineup for the race.
The first monument of the year, van der Poel is diving into his 2024 season right in the deep end. After winning the race last year however and coming off another incredibly dominant winter of cyclocross, the Dutch superstar will understandably be full of confidence.
With Jasper Philipsen and Soren Kragh Anderson, Alpecin-Deceuninck have either two super domestiques for van der Poel or two riders who could hold winning ambitions of their own as viable plan-B's for the team.
Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu van der Poel going head to head is a mouth watering prospect for any cycling fan out there, and with the likes of Mads Pedersen, Filippo Ganna, Tom Pidcock and Matej Mohoric among others also throwing their respective hat in the ring, this year's Milano-Sanremo could be a very exciting edition.
Alpecin-Deceuninck for Milano-Sanremo 2024
Mathieu van der Poel, Jasper Philipsen, Soren Kragh Anderson, Gianni Vermeersch, Silvan Dillier, Axel Laurance and Xandro Meurisse.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024