Swift targets Milan-San Remo and Yorkshire success

Bradley Wiggins’ quest for success at Paris-Roubaix may be getting most of the headlines as Team Sky continue to look for their debut victory in the Monuments, but don’t count out Ben Swift ending that much-debated hoodoo three weeks before Wiggo’s high-profile curtain call. Third last year in Milan-Sanremo on his debut in the race, the 27-year-old Englishman believes everything is in place for him to win La Classicissima.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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