Irish rider collided with road furniture with 33 kilometres to go in one-day race
Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin-Deceuninck celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the Milan-San Remo one-day race. Photograph: Jasper Jacobs/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty ImagesDutch rider Mathieu van der Poel emulated his late grandfather Raymond Poulidor in winning Milan-San Remo on Saturday with an attack close to the summit of the Poggio climb and then a lightning-fast descent to the finish.
The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider reached the line 15 seconds clear of Filippo Ganna , Wout Van Aert and double Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar, who has already nine victories this season to his credit but who couldn’t quite establish a decisive gap on the Poggio. Ireland’s Sam Bennett had bad luck in the race, colliding with road furniture with 33 kilometres to go and ending up sprawled on the ground and out of contention. While he was not badly injured the fall left him sore and bruised, and came at a time the bunch was going close to flat out prior to a series of key climbs.
Bennett had hoped that he would make it over the climbs inside the final 30 kilometres close to the front and that he could then draw on his sprint to notch up a strong result. A searing attack by Pogačar on the Poggio ended the dreams of the sprint specialists in the race, but finishing in one of the first two chase groups behind the leading four might otherwise have been possible.
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