The Piazza del Campo was packed with fans for the first time since 2019 on Saturday, but there was only one rider at the finish – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:soloed to a dominant victory at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Strade Bianche after attacking 50 kilometres from Siena.

The Slovenian was informed in the post-race interviews that he was the first man to take a solo victory at the race having attacked earlier than the 20-kilometre mark. His response was on-brand, delivered in typical understated Pogačar fashion.

"Someone has to be the first time someday, no?" he de🌠adpanned. "Sometimes the winner goes at 50km to go, sometimes at 10km to go, sometimes in a sprint at the end. You never know what can happen."

Pogačar – despite his seeming ease in claiming victory against the likes of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Julian Alaphilippe (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), who f෴inished second &nda📖sh; said that he was worried almost all the way to the finish about the gap to the chasers behind him.

He quickly pulled out a minute's🎐 advantage after attacking on the long Monte Sante Marie sterrato sector, with his gap stretching to 1:30 at one point.꧂ The 23-year-old never looked in danger of being caught, but he saw it a different way out on the road.

"I went early and I didn't know until 5k to go💜 that I'm going to make it. Even on the last climb I was still looking behind if someone was coming so I'm super happy to pull it off.

"I didn't know [for su💛re] until the last climb. I was all the time looking back where is everybody and it was really tense. My energy wཧas going lower and lower in the final and I managed to survive until the end."

Pogačar was caught in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:mass crash at 100 kilometres t🌠o go which saw Alaphilippe fly thr🌃ough the air and multiple other major names abandon as a result.

The world champion was on Pogačar's wheel when he launched what turned out to be his final assault 50 kilometres later, but in the end no response from the Frenchman – or anyone – else could stop the Slovenian from racing away to victory.

"Normally there's a moment when the race goes and this time, I tried to do my b🎀est effort on the Sante Marie climb✱. Nobody followed and in the end I was alone. I had to be fully committed when i started so I'm happy that I could do it."