Due to this year's Milano-Sanremo was a little bit longer than in the past years, 298 kilometres to be exact. Or is it? Not according to Rabobank's Grischa Niermann. His cycling computer showed 302 kilometres, "and that's without the ten-kilometre neutral start." Niermann wrote on his website, grischa-niermann.de, despite the fact that he had never before ridden that far, the "race went 👍by very quickly."

He did acknowledge t⭕hat "it's a funny feeling when you take over at t🧔he front after 50 kilometres and there are still 250 left to go." Niermann's job was to lead the peloton from kilometre 50 all the way to the new climb of le Mànie (kilometre 200). He did that together with compatriot Martin Müller (Milram) and the two ensured that the gap of the break never grew to much more than 16 minutes.

by Fabian Cancellara." Niermann concluded that "maybe it'll work next year again. I really had fun at the race and I surely will be back here."