Mads Pedersen had high expectations at the start of Milan-Sanremo, but in the end there was no more than a fourth place for the
Lidl-Trek leader. His team was among those that took control of the race early, with
Jasper Stuyven playing a key role in the final sprint where he brought Pedersen to a great position, yet the Dane couldn't find enough power in his legs after almost 300 kilometers of racing.
"We just tried to follow," Stuyven said after the race. "Everyone was waiting for Tadej Pogacar to start, but then the scenario occurred that he could not get away immediately. You saw that in the last five hundred meters of the Poggio and the descent, because when we reached the flat strip towards the Via Roma it could still go in any direction."