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'Don't attack before Pogačar' - Italian greats give Tom Pidcock advice on Milan-San Remo during recon ride

Tom Pidcock Poggio Vincenzo Nibali Tadej Pogačar San Remo van der Poel Milan Jasper Stuyven Mark Cavendish Tom Simpson
Maurizio Fondriest (c), Vincenzo Nibali (r) and Tom Pidcock (l) on a recon of the last kilometres of Milan-San Remo.

Former Milan-San Remo winners Vincenzo Nibali and Maurizio Fondriest have gone on a training recon of Italy's spring Monument with Q36.5 leader Tom Pidcock, and given the Briton a few ideas about how he can follow in their wheel tracks to triumph on the Via Roma on Saturday, too.

Having lost San Remo as a neo-pro in 1988 to double Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon, Fondriest then triumphed in the same race in 1993, while Nibali had a memorable solo victory in 2018.

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