Five things we learned from the 2019 Milan-San Remo

From Alaphilippe's first Monument to another near miss for Sagan, there's plenty to talk about

Here are the main talking points from the 2019 Milan-San Remo (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA / Pool)

(Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA)

Delighted Alaphilippe wins his first Monument

There’s no question as to who the best rider of 2019 has been so far. Just two weeks after landing one of the season’s first major Classics, Strade Bianche, Julian Alaphilippe won the season’s first Monument, Milan-San Remo on Saturday (March 23). That’s his seventh win of the season, which includes a couple more WorldTour-ranked stages at Tirreno-Adriatico, and is the highest total anyone has mustered so far.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.