Matej
Mohorič (Bahrain-Victorious) may have won Milan-Sanremo
today with an epic descent of the Poggio but the Slovenian very nearly lost it
all inside the final kilometre as he was leading alone.
Just as he passed through the red kite
signifying 1km to the finish line on Via Roma in San Remo after nearly 300km of
climbing the lone leader rounded a left hander and his chain came off.
Luckily Rob Hatch doing the commentary
for Eurosport got more of a shock than Mohorič did as he simply kept pedalling,
looking down as his chainring anxiously, and managed to get his chain back on.
The
incident was over in a split second but even if it had cost him a couple of
seconds the race would have been lost as Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) had attacked
the chasing group behind and was right behind Mohorič, at just a few lengths,
all the way to the line.
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Mohorič,
the Slovenian road race champion and former junior and U23 world road race
champion, also have himself a few scares when he went slightly off road twice
on the descent as he used up every inch of the road to pull out a gap.
However, each time he simply righted himself and got back onto the tarmac, putting his head down and motoring to a famous victory, with Turgis 2nd at two seconds and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin Fenix) in 3rd place at the same time.
