Your yearly reminder that Strade Bianche is a beautiful race, the cypresses, the Tuscan hills, dust flowing over fields full of grapes. When it's sunny it announces spring much better than Milano - San Remo does (and that is kinda it's job). Sienna is a lovely town to finish in, that last km up the via Santa Catarina is heroic. But it's not a monument. There is a teenager on the start list today who is older than the race itself. Strade becomes a monument when I can tell my grandchildren about how in my day Pogacar did solos of 150km and once, team mates Kopecky and Vollering, sprinted each other to the line whilst fist fighting and shouting profanities at each other (grandfathers are allow to exaggerate)
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