Milan-San Remo

There's a lot to love about the season's longest race, Milano-Sanremo, but this monument is a little sleepy until the Poggio grande finale.

Sean Kelly's 1992 Milano-Sanremo win was one of the most memorable in race history, a daring downhill attack off the Poggio.

Warren Barguil will sit out Milano-Sanremo due to an ankle injury. The Frenchman is Sunweb's key GC leader for the Tour de France.

Fabian Cancellara takes matters into his own hands, attacking an uncooperative breakaway, and fending off a charging sprint field.

Who will win Milano-Sanremo. We rank the 10 favorites for "La Primavera," the season's first monument classic cycling race in Italy.

Milano-Sanremo 2004 looked like it belonged to Petacchi, then Zabel was dashing to victory, but the German made a critical error.

Here's a quick recap of what took place during the 2012 edition of Milano-Sanremo.

Andrew Hood breaks down the race and lists some probable outcomes to the 291km "La Classicissima."

Peter Sagan's trainer admits that the world champion may be tactically out-played at Milano-Sanremo by rivals with deeper teams.

With Milano-Sanremo only days away, we are taking a look back at some of the most memorable editions of “La Primavera.”

Beating world champ Peter Sagan on Tirreno-Adriatico's penultimate stage, Fernando Gaviria confirmed he's a top favorite for Milano-Sanremo.

Jim Fryer captures Milano-Sanremo's iconic coastal image alongside the photography legend who inspired him.

Arnaud Démare's big win in Sanremo is further proof that French cycling has turned the corner after a couple dark decades.

Arnaud Démare set a new Strava KOM on the Cipressa at Sanremo, but he says the Strava data proves he didn't take a tow from a car.

BrakeThrough Media captured the grit and the glory of the first monument classic of the season, Milano-Sanremo

Eros Capecchi and Matteo Tosatto accuse Arnaud Démare of relying on a tow from his team car to rejoin the Sanremo peloton after a crash

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Images from Saturday's Milano-Sanremo, the scene of Arnaud Démare's first career monument classic win

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Arnaud Démare takes his first big classics win on the Via Roma in Sanremo, Italy

After going strong for 290 kilometers, Fernando Gaviria hit the deck and Nacer Bouhanni suffered a mechanical in the final 1000 meters of Milano-Sanremo

2009 Milano-Sanremo runner-up Heinrich Haussler delivers his best monument classic result in years with a top-10 finish Saturday

Arnaud Démare recovers from a crash to sprint to victory ahead of Ben Swift and Jurgen Roelandts in the first monument classic of 2016

A landslide along the Milano-Sanremo route forces organizer RCS Sport to send the peloton on a detour

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The VeloNews editorial staff predicts who will win Milano-Sanremo, the season's first monument.

A handful of top riders have come close to Sanremo glory — Andrew Hood considers five favorites who've never broken through in Italy.

After initially saying he would not race Milano-Sanremo this year, Vincenzo Nibali will now lead Astana in Saturday's Italian monument.

Two major Italian races are on the menu: Men face Milano-Sanremo, while the Women's WorldTour rides the hills of Trofeo Alfredo Binda.

Global Cycling Network names 10 of the top riders who are in with a chance of winning the season's first monument.

With Milano-Sanremo coming up this Saturday, take a look back at a historic double, won by Laurent Fignon in 1989.

Cannondale is focusing on three leaders, Slagter, van Baarle, and Navardauskas, to keep its options open at Milano-Sanremo.

The 300-kilometer Milano-Sanremo might seem predictable, but it's far from it. Andrew Hood takes a closer look at "la Classicissima."

Peter Sagan will try to win Milano-Sanremo wearing the rainbow jersey, and says the course could be even more challenging.

Recently, Milano-Sanremo winners have honed form at Paris-Nice — Bouhanni and Matthews look sharp ahead of Saturday's monument.

Fernando Gaviria, 21, has already made several impressions on cycling's elite. He'll test himself in the 300km Italian monument.

Fabian Cancellara is on winning form so far this season, which bodes well for one final run at the Milano-Sanremo monument.

Illness has derailed Philippe Gilbert's Milano-Sanremo prep

The German sprinter says he'll pass on racing the 291km classic after struggling in the cold and snow at Paris-Nice this week.

The 2012 world champion has a respiratory infection and wants to rest up for Milano-Sanremo on March 19.

Etixx team officials say Marcel Kittel may, in fact, race Milano-Sanremo, despite saying earlier this year that he wouldn't try the monument.

With four wins in the bag this season, Alexander Kristoff is the odds-on favorite to win a second Milano-Sanremo in one month's time.

The German and five of his teammates were injured when a car plowed into them during a training ride last month.

John Degenkolb and Alexander Kristoff have morphed themselves into strong classics riders capable of tackling the demanding spring races

Haga rides his first monument in support of teammate and race favorite John Degenkolb, and his efforts, crashes, and suffering are rewarded

Find out what it took for John Degenkolb to win his first-ever monument at Milano-Sanremo in Italy

BrakeThrough Media rode with the peloton and documented the dramatic, 293km race, all the way to the finish on the historic Via Roma

The German reels in the biggest catch of his cycling career by winning Sunday's Milano-Sanremo

Sprinter John Degenkolb shone brightly in Sanremo, but not before some other bright lights went dim on the long, cold road from Milano

Tim De Waele captures a Milano-Sanremo that started out cold and wound up hot

Results from the 106th running of “La Classicissima," Milano-Sanremo, the first of the season's monuments

A rainy, crash-packed edition of La Classicissima ends in a mad dash to the line won by Giant-Alpecin's John Degenkolb

Sky's Ben Swift is hoping to improve on his third-place debut last year at Milano-Sanremo with an even stronger ride in the classics opener

The South African Pro Continental team will ride into the season's first monument with two former winners on its roster

Global Cycling Network breaks down the list of favorites at this weekend's monument

Can Peter Sagan deliver Tinkoff-Saxo a monument victory? The Russian team is backing its star with hopes that he can revive his winning form

Mark Cavendish's form is questionable after trans-continental travel and cold racing in Tirreno left the sprint star sick ahead of Sanremo

Perhaps benefitting from modest expectations, Matthews and Lobato have potential to deliver a surprise on the Via Roma this Sunday

Fabian Cancellara heads into the major spring classics with a clear head and a mentality that's keenly focused on every minute detail

LottoNL-Jumbo talks about what makes "La Primavera" a special and challenging start to the spring classics season

Race director Vegni is happy to return to the classic, city-center finish for "La Primavera," which may encourage bold, late-race attacks

Simon Gerrans’ victory in Liège-Bastogne-Liège capped a spring classics season that was wide open and unpredictable in the peloton

As part of his preparation for the 2014 spring classics, Fabian Cancellara implemented specific sprint training and it paid in Flanders

The South African squad will be the first team from the African continent to race at the Tour of Flanders

Rain, freezing temperatures, and 294 kilometers take their toll and BrakeThrough Media captures the weathered faces of the Sanremo peloton

The Italian attacked on the Cipressa and quickly took the race lead, but he was caught with 10km to go

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider says he and his teammates are not to blame for a fifth-place result

The Norwegian is an unexpected winner of Italy’s biggest one-day race

Fabian Cancellara held tight when Vincenzo Nibali jumped on the Cipressa and said he's not interested in attacking just to put on a show

It was a wet, cold Milano-Sanremo, the longest race of the year, and settled in a bunch sprint

Results from the 2014 edition of Milano-Sanremo

Katusha delivers Kristoff to the win in a wet, wild finale to Milano-Sanremo, first of the monuments and the longest race of the year

Former winners Gerald Ciolek, Mark Cavendish and Fabian Cancellara among starters for Sunday's 105th edition of Milano-Sanremo

Gerrans, the 2012 champ, has been battling allergies and fell ill overnight, according to his team

Fabian Cancellara is in legacy-building mode and wants to add more major classics to his treasure chest before calling it a career

American Taylor Phinney is ill and may not start Sunday, but BMC Racing is hoping its powerful Sanremo squad will finally deliver a major classics win

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step manager says the changes will alter the entire race — and the field of riders

The season's first major classic is the longest and most unpredictable, and while Sagan is the favorite, no one knows who will win on Sunday

John Degenkolb and André Greipel give Germany two very different options for Sunday's sprinter-friendly Milano-Sanremo

The defending champion in the season's first major classic is flying under the radar next to favorites Mark Cavendish and Peter Sagan