Looks like it will be wet and cool for the start in Milan. Rain in the forecast.
Supposed to be partly cloudy by the time they get to the coast and San Remo.
High temperatures for the day 51F.
Should be a good one. Always a bit of a roll of the dice until they hit the Poggio - and then craziness and anything can happen from that point on.
Sagan, in pre-race interviews as always, is keeping his cards close to the chest, other than being clearly miffed last year, that he did most of the work, then was narrowly beat in the end. But he also knows, that's bike racing, and does not get too worked up about it. It's really his one "weakness", if you can call it that, similar to when Cancellara was at his best, both Sagan and Cancellara get heavily marked and are often the ones, who act first, do the bulk work in the finale, that really animates it all, and then end up losing but just barely.
For both, thankfully, just going along for the ride, is not part of their character, and the whole of professional bike racing is the better for it.
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