Milano-Sanremo – Haussler 2nd and Hushovd 3rd
Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia – Highroad) narrowly beat Heinrich Haussler and Thor Hushovd in today’s Milano-Sanremo.
Jean-Paul van Poppel, one of the Sports Director’s for todays race commented, “Heinrich started out early to bring Thor into the best position, but he actually went so hard that nobody could hold his wheel at that moment. He slowed down at 100 m and Cavendish was on his way in and just nailed him down within the last 50 m.
“It was all in the game where you look for an opportunity in the moment. Except for Cavendish, if Heinrich could have held for one more second, he would have won. But that was the race.”
Results:
1st Mark Cavendish +6.42.45 44.39 km/h
2nd Heinrich Haussler s.t.
3rd Thor Hushovd +0.02
4th Allan Davis s.t.
5th Alessandro Petacchi s.t.
33th Andreas Klier s.t.
60th Gabriel Rasch +1.51
92th Roger Hammond +8.19
103th Hayden Roulston s.t.
131st Xavier Florencio s.t.
133th Jeremy Hunt s.t.