Milan-San Remo

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.

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Milano-Sanremo enjoys a winners' list full of star sprinters and we look at the last 10 editions to end in a bunch gallop

Former champion Cancellara among the riders confirmed for the 105th edition of Milano-Sanremo

Belgian former world champion will not contest the season's first major classic after partner suffers a miscarriage

Much ado about Milano-Sanremo: Course changes, and the American's hope that tradition prevails at Sanremo

Rain in the forecast may force organizers to tweak the route of the annual classic

The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider guided Cavendish to a sprint victory in Monday’s Tirreno-Adriatico stage 6

Mark Cavendish promises to honor Milano-Sanremo with one last ride — and criticizes changes to the Italian monument

Vincenzo Nibali knows his chances are diminished at Milano-Sanremo without the Pompeiana climb — so much so that he may not start

BMC's Philippe Gilbert says Milano-Sanremo is an unpredictable race, but within reach

Ahead of Milano-Sanremo, Mark Cavendish could use the boost to his confidence that comes with a Tirreno-Adriatico win, says his team

Simon Gerrans isn't forgetting Milano-Sanremo, but admits the Ardennes suit him better than the sprinter-friendly course to open the spring classics

Tour de France champion will sit out sprinter-friendly classic in Italy and says he hopes cycling's reform commission helps turn the page on the EPO era

Former world champion will contest the sprinter-friendly Sanremo on March 23

With the Pompeiana washed out, the season's first monument will put the sprinters in the spotlight

Reports that the Pompieana climb might be excluded from Milan-Sanremo have prompted differing reactions from Chris Froome and Mark Cavendish

Bad weather and safety concerns may force RCS Sport to take another look at its Pompeiana climb, an addition to Milano-Sanremo

In a Q&A in Qatar, Trek director Dirk Demol appraises the race and his new team, and reflects on his escape from factory life on the bike

New approach to the classics for BMC Racing will give Phinney a shot at team leadership come the cobbles