“If I’m the first guy down the Poggio I have to go full gas - 100% and take full risks. If it’s two or three guys, and if they go crazy, then I have to go crazy as well to follow. Because if you give them ten seconds then it’s already done. It’s not easy to come back after.
You feel it in the peloton. The nervousness comes - the fighting - and also from the DS guys. Already you feel it an hour or maybe an hour and a half before the Cipressa.
The team had a plan to drop in on the Cipressa and to still have two guys left to support me on the Poggio. Everyone did a great job, but there were some nervous parts in the Cipressa where I lost some guys and did some efforts myself. That then paid me back in the Poggio - feeling it in my legs.”
-Biniam Girmay
Men’s startlist
Look back…
Fons de Wolf (1981 winner of Milan Sanremo) bundled up to his face at the start of MSR 1985.
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