Tadej Pogacar still can’t win the Milan-San Remo. Pogacar attacked earlier than usual on the penultimate Cipressa climb but Mathieu van der Poel followed the Slovenian standout every step of the way and eventually won a three-man sprint Saturday that also included Filippo Ganna.

The race reports following each of the past 29 editions of the men’s Milan–San Remo, the first monument classic of the cycling season, are more or less identical, save for the proper nouns. The peloton races down from Milan onto the coast of the Ligurian Sea for like six hours and,

Mathieu van der Poel holds off Filippo Ganna and Tadej Pogacar in a thriller to win the Milan-San Remo one-day classic for the second time.