Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) ticked off another Monument on his palmarès, winning Milan-San Remo at the sixth time of asking after beating Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) in a two-man sprint on the Via Roma.
The World Champion, who had crashed just 32km earlier, and the Briton proved the strongest riders in the 298km Monument, dropping two-time winner Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) early on the Poggio after the trio had escaped on the penultimate climb of the Cipressa.
Pidcock stuck with Pogačar on the remainder up the Poggio and on the descent, but it was the Slovenian who possessed the quicker sprint finish, just about getting to the line first.
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Four seconds further back, another victim of the crash which saw Pogačar hit the deck, Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) jumped out of the peloton in the final kilometre to round out the podium.
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