Milan-San Remo 2026: Live Updates – Pogačar, Van der Poel & More!

Buongiorno and welcome to Cyclingnews‘ live updates of the men’s 117th Milan-San Remo.

Today is a day that is steeped in history, and legend. The longest one-day race in professional cycling at almost 300km, it is the slowest of slow burns. The riders have to manage their nutrition, drinking, positioning, tactics and much more besides in this incredible chess game of a bike race.

Of course, Milan-San Remo has the historic Monument tag, shared with just four other races. Two in Belgium, two in Italy and one in France. They are, of course, Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Il Lombardia.

But let’s gain focused on today… Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) once again comes to try and take this missing piece in his palmares. However, he still has the defending champion, Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) to content with over this 298km route.

It is the usual route for the riders with the Passo del Turchino coming at roughly the halfway point. The riders then have a long ride to the Tre Capi, the Capo Mele, Capo Cervo and the Capo Berta. After that, it isn’t far from La Cipressa, where Pogačar launched his attack last year, and finally, the often deciding Poggio di Sanremo with a terrifying plunge down into San Remo and a finish on the Via Roma.

Van der Poel agrees with Eddy Merckx with saying Pogačar should just travel on the Poggio, but is this just mind games?

Pogačar teased a possible attack on the Passo del Turchino, but is he actually joking?

Where does UAE Team Emirates-XRG leverage their power this year for Pogačar?

It’s interesting that Ineos Grenadiers think that Josh Tarling could be involved for the win today, but they do have Filippo Ganna…