Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel and Filippo Ganna crack three decades old climbing record on Cipressa by more than 20 seconds
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The 2025 Milano-Sanremo was decided on Cipressa and it was for the first time in decades that the penultimate climb of La Primavera held such significance for the race outcome.
Nobody in their right sense would've attack on the Cipressa (5.6 km at 4.3%) - a climb the riders top with more than 20 kilometers to go. But the again, Tadej Pogacar is not afraid to venture on such adventure. Everyone knew what was up when the Slovenian ordered his teammates to absolutely smash the bottom slopes of Cipressa, yet only Mathieu van der Poel, Filippo Ganna (and briefly Romain Grégoire) could keep up with Slovenian's accelerations.
Obviously, the leading trio must've ridden up this climb pretty fast. How fast? Well, they've broken the revious record that stood for nearly three decades by more than twenty seconds.
Back in 1996, the duo Gabriele Colombo and Alexander Gontchenkov attacked away from peloton on the Cipressa, bridged to the breakaway that was still up on the road and ultimately fought it out for the victory.
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- Door 1: get past this mentally and race again Door 2: retirementb3tlla25-03-2025
- a concussion is a serious deal and I wish him well, but really he seems so fragile mentally and physically for a great champion. he won the tour 2 x which is insane, but he faced no adversity. he is crumbling with some tough times.mij25-03-2025
- Wow ! Why was he allowed to finish that stage? Where was the concussion protocol?frieders325-03-2025
- You know, all his critics would be the first to complain about the Tour if he retired.Mistermaumau24-03-2025
- Fine by me, was just trying to understand why you felt Tadej’s and MVDP’s 2 per year was more interesting than 3 and 1 or with the others thrown in the mix. Up to now results of the two eras are not very different but it may have been more interesting to compare the number of races where both actually CONFRONTED each other. I’m pretty sure TP and MVDP don’t have a hope in hell of offering nearly as much rivalry, many years the other 2 did 2 or 3 monuments together, in 1975 they even both did all 5! And that’s without counting classics. Compared to that it sure looks as if today’s riders try to avoid the others. You’re right to spend your time otherwise if you prefer I enjoy learning stuff from people with their personal view, whether I agree or not, debate is a great tool for that but obviously no longer fashionable in the age of Twitter where stating is more important than reasoning. Enjoy the racing/your rides, whatever.Mistermaumau24-03-2025
- Thanks, I will go look for itJumpyjohn24-03-2025
- If this is true then he has checked out mentally. This is a very bad sign for this team.awp24-03-2025
- To be clear, I won't comment on another person or try to change what they do, and I won't uses language like you just did. I can only determine what I do, and I'd like to spend my time celebrating the incredible riding we see and enjoy it as much as possible. I'm a fan, I'd rather be a fan in awe than one going into debates online.RidesHills24-03-2025
- It was a very impressive ride by Matthew Brennan. This kid has some serious talent.
santiagobenites24-03-2025 - RiderHills...well said, the guy is a pain in the arse. He talks utter crap most of the time and off comment. Just ignore the sad little man.
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