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André GREIPEL (LOTTO SOUDAL) signing in at the wet start in Milan | 
Peter SAGAN (BORA - HANSGROHE), UCI President, Italian cycling's main man and the Milan mayor | 
Embattled Team Sky with last year's winner, Michal KWIATKOWSKI |
Marcel KITTEL's (KATUSHA ALPECIN) first Milan-San Remo is a wet one... he was dropped when the climbing started on the Cipressa with 30 km to go | 
The rollout from Milan | 
Philippe Gilbert (BEL - QuickStep - Floors) leads the peloton through a puddle |
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Guy Sagiv (ISR - Israel Cycling Academy) leads the break |
This year's iconic shot of the peloton at Campo Ligure | 
The break cruising along | 
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The break going up in smoke | 
The peloton bearing down | 
It has been a very rough start to the year for past MSR winner Mark CAVENDISH (Dimension Data) who crashed out of yet another race... this time at the base of the Poggio with 8 km to go |
Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) and Krists NEILANDS (Israel Cycling Academy) attacked on the Poggio with 7 km to go | 
"When the Latvian champion Neilands attacked, he asked me to collaborate. The team was riding for Colbrelli who was in great shape, but Neilands was strong and when I saw we had opened a 20 second gap, I decided to continue that attack." | 
Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) going solo near the top of the Poggio |
This is for those looking to see another failed Nibali attack at MSR | 
Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) hit the base of the Poggio with an 8 second lead and 2 km to go | 
Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) checks his gap in the final 100m |
Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) celebrates a rare solo win at Milan-San Remo (first since 2008) with the sprint for 2nd in full flight behind him | 
Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) wins ahead of 2nd Caleb EWAN (Mitchelton - Scott) and 3rd Arnaud DEMARE (FDJ) | 
The finish scene in Sanremo as the home crowd erupts in celebration of the first Italian MSR winner since 2006 |
He has won many races, but this is his best one day win. "I believed victory was within my reach in the final part of the race when I saw the empty road in front of me. Even so, the final 2km were interminable." | 
Easily the best sprint of the day went to Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton - Scott), but unfortunately for him it was for second | 
The winner, Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida), hits the stage |
"Perhaps Milano Sanremo was the race I least expected to win because it doesn't really suit me. In the past I've attacked on the Poggio and made the podium, but I've always been beaten by a faster finisher than me. That said, today I won and I am very happy." | 
Unabashedly Italian | 
Your 2018 Milan-San Remo podium: 2nd Caleb EWAN (Mitchelton - Scott), 1st Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) and 3rd Arnaud DEMARE (FDJ) |
Your 2018 Milan-San Remo podium: 2nd Caleb EWAN (Mitchelton - Scott), 1st Vincenzo NIBALI (Bahrain - Merida) and 3rd Arnaud DEMARE (FDJ) |
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