Ganna and Van der Poel play Milan-San Remo cat and mouse in cold and wet six-hour Tirreno-Adriatico stage

COLFIORITO ITALY MARCH 12 Filippo Ganna of Italy and Team INEOS Grenadiers Blue Leader Jersey competes during to the 60th TirrenoAdriatico 2025 Stage 3 a 239km stage from Follonica to Colfiorito UCIWT on March 12 2025 in Colfiorito Italy Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images.

Filippo Ganna and Mathieu van der Poel played Milan-San Remo cat and mouse during the final kilometres of the rain-soaked 239km Tirreno-Adriatico third stage to Colfirito on the high plains of central Italy.

With 3.5km to go on the stage, Ganna made a solo attack on the gradual climb to the 760m high plain, while Tom Pidock (Q36.5) was initially unable to close the gap.