La Classicissima Race Report: The break of the day was caught at the bottom of the Poggio and the race was on. Tadej Pogaar put in multi-big attacks, but it was Matej Mohori who went for the solo win on the Poggio descent. The Bahrain rider held off the chasers for the ‘other’ Slovenian to be Victorious.Big win for Matej MohoriMatej Mohori won the 2022 Milan-San Remo. The Slovenian champion broke away on the descent of the Poggio to win his first monument. Anthony Turgis and Mathieu van der Poel joined him on the podium.The start from the Maspes-Vigorelli VelodromeRoute:Milano-Sanremo runs along the classic route that for more than 110 years has connected Milan with the western Riviera through Pavia, Ovada, the Passo del Turchino that leads into Genua Voltri. From there, it rolls westwards through Varazze, Savona, Albenga to Imperia and San Lorenzo al Mare where, after the classic sequence of the Capi (Mele, Cervo and Berta), the athletes will deal with the two climbs added in recent decades: the Cipressa (1982) and the Poggio di Sanremo (1961). The Cipressa is just over 5.6km long with a gradient of 4.1%. The highly testing descent leads back down to SS 1 Aurelia.Milano-Sanremo profileThe important final kilometres:The ascent of Poggio di Sanremo begins with 9km remaining to the finish (3.7km, average gradient less than 4%, maximum 8% in the segment before getting to the top of the climb). The road is slightly narrower, with 4 hairpin turns in the first 2…
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