Arnaud Démare has surprisingly Milan-San Remo written in his name. The Frenchman of FDJ was after a chaotic finale, the fastest of a large group. He finished ahead of Ben Swift (Sky) and Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto Soudal).
some collateral in La Primavera. the race begins in Milan, ends in San Remo and Maarten Tjallingii (LottoNL-Jumbo) is in the early morning flight. This edition was no exception. the 38-year-old Tjallingii, who is in his final season , today met two acquaintances in the escape:. Jan Bárta (Collaborative Argon 18) and Matteo Bono (Lampre-Farnese Vini) like Tjallingii they were already in the leading group in the last two years
the three time had the company of. Gediminas Bagdonas (AG2R La Mondiale), serghei ţvetcov (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec), Mirco Maestri (Bardiani-CSF), Adrian Kurek (CCC-SPRANDI-POLKOWICE), Roger Kluge (IAM Cycling), Samuele Conti (South East-Venezuela), Andrea Peron (Novo Nordisk) and Marco Coledan (Trek Segafredo). the eleven leaders had a maximum lead of eleven minutes.
Landslide
After 160 kilometers the riders had a alternative driving route to avoid the consequences of a landslide. Shortly after the Passo del Turchino they were therefore the highway for nine kilometers. At that time took Katusha, Tinkoff, Dimension Data and Cofidis to chase work in the peloton.
Cipressa
30 kilometers before the end, with the Cipressa in sight, the nervousness began to take the peloton. This led to several crashes. Include Michael Matthews (Orica-GreenEdge), Arnaud Demare (FDJ), Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) and Geraint Thomas (Sky) came on the ground correctly.
At the beginning of the Cipressa were the six remaining leaders, accompanied Tjallingii, reeled in by the peloton. Moments later went Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) and Ian Stannard (Sky) in attack. They came with ten seconds ahead from the top. Former winner Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) at that time was already discharged from the pack.
After the descent came Daniel Oss (BMC), Fabio Sabatini (Etixx-Quick Step) and Matteo Montaguti (AG2R La Mondiale) join the two leaders, but before the foot of the Poggio five attackers were caught again. A large group then arrived at the start of the final climb.
Poggio
Andrea Fedi (South East-Venezuela) was the first on the Poggio placed an attack, but Tony Gallopin (Lotto Soudal) quickly jumped up and over him. However, the Frenchman himself was counting overtaken again within a couple. Then ventured Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky) a try. The Pool was the first over the top of the Poggio and was down for five seconds ahead
That was not enough:. Fabian Cancellara (Trek Segafredo) drove Matto Trentin (Etixx-Quick Step) in wheel the hole. After the merger went Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) and Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) attacked, but they were not clear.
A large group then headed for a sprint. In preparation for this, the unfortunate rookie Fernando Gaviria (Etixx-Quick Step) crashed. It was then Arnaud Démare which surprisingly grabbed the victory. He is the first French winner since 1995.
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