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- This is the 100th anniversary of the Milano-SanRemo cycling race.
- Lance’s first European race since the 2005 Tour de France.
- Lance will be the only American on the 8-member Astana team for this race.
- Italian world champion Allesandro Ballan and Olympic time-trial champ Fabian Cancellara are both out due to illness/injury.
- Saxo Bank’s Frank Schleck has withdrawn due to a training ride accident.
- Columbia-High Road’s Mark Cavendish makes his first appearance at the event, has high hopes.
- Quick Step’s Tom Boonen also wants it…real bad.
- The Italians refer to it as la classica di primavera or la cassicissima…the Spring Classic.
- It’s been called an easy race to finish, but a hard race to win.
- Filippo Pozzato (Katusha) and Alessandro Petacchi (LPR) are the only former winners racing this year.
If you read Italian, here’s the
main site.  You can try Google Translations, or you can check out this
fan site that’s pretty solid.
