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April 2nd, 2009 | armchair

Cavendish wins Milan-San Remo

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My old York MTB buddy Ross Peat just emailed me this fuzzy vid of Mark Cavendish winning the Milan-San Remo race on 21 March. 

Dubbed ‘La Classicissima’ (Classic of Classics) by the Italians, the Milan-San Remo is the longest professional one-day race at 298km. By all accounts it’s a sprinter’s race, the climbs being fairly mild by some Classic standards. Eddy Merckx won it 7 times, Erik Zabel 4 times, Petacchi and Cipollini had one apiece, and Tom Simpson won it in 1964.

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