The Latin proverb can be utilized in some ways to explain totally different moments of braveness however it’s particularly becoming for this yr’s Milan-San Remo and revived Milan-San Remo Women.
There have been many moments of bravery displayed on Saturday. Tadej Pogačar and Elisa Longo Borghini have been amongst the bravest however obtained little fortune as they gave their all to attempt to win the Monument solely to in the end be defeated by their rivals and future. Lorena Wiebes and Mathieu van der Poel have been the lucky winners.
The biking gods usually reward bravery and arguably the most important recipient was the game itself and Milan-San Remo organisers RCS Sport. Saturday was a day of thrilling motion, with a double dose of big-name racing, advanced ways and plenty of feelings.
RCS Sport recreated the ladies’s race and their funding and efforts have been rewarded with a historic day of girls’s racing after which a males’s race for the ages. Women’s race director Giusy Virelli was one other winner and deserves reward and recognition. We now, lastly, have an entire San Remo race, compressed into the identical afternoon, identical to the feelings of the Poggio finale.
There have been no main high-speed assaults on the Cipressa or Poggio within the girls’s race however Longo Borghini confirmed her bravery as soon as extra. Her efforts have been hindered by an absence of a quick end and so she once more performed her playing cards as greatest as doable with a solo assault within the closing two kilometres.
The Italian nationwide champion was caught within the Via Roma, with victory simply out of attain after an act of generosity from world champion Lotte Kopecky. She sacrificed her personal probabilities to chase Longo Borghini and arrange Wiebes for the dash.
Wiebes did not know if she would have an opportunity of victory when she rolled out of Genoa within the rain and on Saturday morning and little doubt suffered on the Poggio. She was rewarded with probably the most prestigious victory of her profession.
There have been comparable blended fortunes and contrasting feelings within the males’s race however their bravery was rewarded in a method or one other.
Van der Poel emerged because the winner of his second Milan-San Remo and his seventh Monument. Filippo Ganna was second however bravely fought again time and time once more in a present of defiance, whereas Tadej Pogačar was daring and even brazen along with his Cipressa and Poggio assaults however acquired little reward for his efforts, at the least this yr.
“In races like Milan-San Remo, it is not about who’s the quickest however who’s the strongest,” van der Poel mentioned of his completely executed dash end, however maybe additionally referring to his technique of going with Pogačar assault and struggling in his wheel.
Pogačar was not so blissful in San Remo however will certainly be rewarded with victory within the years to come back. He wants to enhance his technique and discover one other tactical or bodily edge that may imply the distinction between victory and defeat.
Mark Cavendish gained Milan-San Remo on the first try, whereas others wanted years to land a career-defining win, others have been at all times defeated and years of tying.
Audentes fortuna iuvat Tadej and Elisa! See you subsequent yr for one more present of Milan-San Remo bravery.
