Bystaff and agencies 700PM GMT nineteen March 2010
Contender Columbia supplement Mark Cavendish will be aiming to repeat his Milan-San Remo feat of 2009 Photo EPA Cavendish is aiming to lift off a singular cycling stand in by winning the tiresome competition for the second year in succession.
Despite his strong miss of form his rivals will be wary. In 2009 the Columbia competitor proposed "La Primavera" as an alien but became the initial Briton to win the competition given Tom Simpson twenty-five years before.
Sky"s Milan-San Remo riders Chris Hoy earnings to pile-up site Team Sky can kick predecessors Victoria Pendleton gay to contest for 3 golds in 2012 Victoria Pendleton can bid for three times bullion Lance Armstrong to retire "after 2011"Cavendish"s credentials for 2010 has been hampered by dental problems over the winter, but the Belgian Boonen, for one, will not equate him out.
"I"d have Cavendish in the tab nonetheless he still contingency urge a bit," pronounced Boonen, whose personal prime is on-form Italian competitor Daniele Bennati of Liquigas.
Katusha supplement Filippo Pozzato, Fabian Cancellara, the 2008 winner, and Team Sky"s rising Norwegian, Edvald Boasson Hagen, will spearhead teams anticipating to dissapoint the sprinters" plans.
Pozzato, however, most ruled out a critical plea from the reigning champion. "You don"t need to be 100 percent to win Milan-San Remo, generally if you"re as fast as Cavendish but even so, I don"t think he"ll be a hazard this year," he told cyclingnews.com
Cancellara, of Saxo Bank, will lapse to the competition for the initial time given he powered afar from a small organisation in the last dual kilometres in 2008 to finish Switzerland"s 21-year wait for for a win.
Boasson Hagen, of Team Sky, won the last theatre at Tirreno and notwithstanding San Remo being extremely longer his teammate Michael Barry is assured "It"s a competition we can win and we are going there with a plan to do only that.
"Edvald is in good form and we will float for him."
Cavendish"s sports executive Brian Holm at Team Columbia, meanwhile, says he won"t be statute the Briton out.
"I think his chances are some-more or less the same as last year," he said. "He astounded everybody last year and in a little ways it looked as well easy. We know it"s going to be difficult, but we"ll give it a try.
"I do indeed hold he can do it again."
Lance Armstrong has pulled out of Saturday"s competition with strident gastroenteritis.
"It would not be really smart to let him begin in a competition of roughly 300K, whilst not being healthy," Team RadioShack executive Johan Bruyneel said.
The seven-time Tour de France hold up has been transposed by Fumiyuki Beppu.
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