Cycling

Demare wins Milan-Sanremo

Surprise victory in the Italian classic: A young Frenchman duped the competition of the big favorites winner John Degenkolb to ride in the absence of the German year-on-year afterwards.

The French cyclist Arnaud Demare of Team FDJ has surprisingly, the 107. Edition of Milan-Sanremo win. The 24-Year-old is the successor of the injured, absent title holder John Degenkolb took. Demare won the Sprint on the Via Roma after almost 300 miles and nearly seven hours before the British Ben Swift (Sky) and Belgian Jurgen Roelandts of the Lotto Team of André Greipel.

The big favorites like the world champion, Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), Fabian Cancellara (Trek Segafredo) and Alexander Kristoff (Norway/Katusha) passed by all on the Podium. The year-on-year second Kristoff was in Sixth, still the Best. Among the Ten best expectation was to no German.

A landslide, there had been in the Morning, close to the Passo Turchino, which is why the course had to be redirected in the case of Genoa Voltri on the highway. Instead of 291 kilometers, the cyclists completed even 295 kilometers. In the incident, which happened well before the arrival of the peloton, came obviously, nobody seriously hurt, but were destroyed by Parking cars.

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