Remco EVENEPOEL. 10 with honors. It's never easy to win with the bookmakers' favorites. It's never easy to win even for a champion like him. He wins the final sprint decisively against Skjelmose, after having controlled and not dominated a race that was made by others, but the 26-year-old Belgian has the great merit of always having controlled with absolute lucidity. Two months of abstinence, but this announced, declared and desired success is more than deserved. A sharpshooter rider, especially when those two or three are missing. But it must be said: Remco is part of this crazy dynasty of champions. He may race the Flèche (he'll decide tomorrow), to prepare for the clash of titans in the Queen of the Classics, that Liège which will close the spring classics on Sunday, but it's wide open to spectacle.

Mattias SKJELMOSE. 8. He knows he has to mark the gold from Paris, he knows he can't give him anything, instead he concedes the sprint, leaving him behind in the final dash. After his success a year ago, a podium of absolute prestige, behind a champion who always knows what he has to do.

Benoit COSNEFROY. 7. He too has a simple task, but not an obvious one: finish in the podium zone and he makes it to the podium in the end.

Romaine GREGOIRE. 7.5. On the Kruisberg 42 km from the finish he opens hostilities. He anticipates Evenepoel, who would like to break the world, but it's the Frenchman from Groupama FDJ who shakes things up. Then, however, on the Cauberg he can't keep pace with Skjelmose and Evenepoel. He loses contact, but stays in the zone.

Emiel VERSTRYNGE. 6. The 24-year-old Belgian keeps himself in the high zones and stays there.

Mauro SCHMID. 6. A sacrificial race to bring home some UCI points: mission accomplished.

Mauri VANSEVENANT. 5.5. For what it's worth and for what he can do, perhaps he could have hoped for something more.

Albert WITHEN PHILIPSEN. 6. There's not much to be amazed about, but a top-ten finish, in the end, isn't so bad.

Ewen COSTIOU. 6. A race of endurance and he endures.

Marco FRIGO. 10. A monstrous race, all with the wind in his face. The 26-year-old from Veneto with NSN Cycling Team doesn't hold back, already from kilometer 10 he's in the breakaway and stays there all day. He's caught by Remco Evenepoel, Mattia Skjelmose and Romaine Gregoire 36 kilometers from the finish, after 211 kilometers of breakaway. He doesn't lose heart, doesn't lose the wheels, stays there in the thick of the race with stubborn determination until the end. Never say never.

Filippo BARONCINI. 10. How beautiful to see him back in the group, how beautiful to see him there leading the dance. After what he had to overcome, in the hardest race, that of returning to racing after a frightening, monstrous, dramatic accident. Here everyone did their part. Great Filippo, who put his soul into it. Mauro Gianetti, Andrea Agostini and the entire medical staff of the UAE team. The doctors who put science at the boy's disposal. It's a success of the Niguarda Hospital in Milan, therefore of Gabriele Canzi, head of maxillofacial surgery, Davide Colistra, neurosurgeon, Valeria Terzi, intensive care resuscitator, Giampaolo Casella, head of the anesthesia and resuscitation department, Pietro Giorgi, head of the orthopedics and traumatology sector, who took care of his back. Seeing him back on the bike wasn't a given; seeing him competitive is pure emotion.

Huub ARTZ. 8. The Lotto Intermarché boy takes off after just 10 km with our Marco Frigo (NSN Cycling Team) and Filip Maciejuk (Movistar Team), Warren Barguil (Team Picnic PostNL), Xabier Mikel Azparren (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team), Joseba López (Caja Rural - Seguros RGA), Siebe Deweirdt (Team Flanders - Baloise), Valentin Retailleau (TotalEnergies) and Abram Stockman (Unibet Rose Rockets). Great the race of Huub, who stays until 42 kilometers from the finish in the company of our Frigo, the last to surrender. Then he'll be swept away by Matteo Jorgenson.