Mathieu van der Poel won Milan-San Remo on Saturday to claim the first 'Monument' of the season with an attack which left some of road cycling's biggest stars trailing in his dust.
Mathieu van der Poel won Milan-San Remo on Saturday to claim the first 'Monument' of the season and the race his grandfather Raymond Poulidor took 62 years ago.
Sixty-two years after his grandfather Raymond Poulidor, Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel won Milan-Sanremo solo on Saturday, the first of five Monuments of the cycling season.The Alpecin rider made the difference just before the summit of the Poggio to lead a group of three riders by fifteen seconds, settled in a sprint by the Italian Filippo Ganna ahead of the Belgian Wout Van Aert and the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar. This is the third victory for Van der Poel in a Monument after his successes in the Tour of Flanders in 2020 and 2022. He became the first Dutchman to win i