Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2019 *spoilers*

Quick thread for this, should be live on Eurosport in a few minutes.

Latest according to cycling news that a break of 8 is up the road with 6:50 and 120km to go.

Dan Martin has abandoned due to illness.

Valverde out too from the looks of it. He actually swallowed a bee on Wednesday during the race and was stung!!!

neris

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Valverde out too from the looks of it. He actually swallowed a bee on Wednesday during the race and was stung!!!

Sometimes it's not that rude to spit

neris

Van vluten won women's race.

neris

neris wrote: »

Van vluten won women's race.

Sounded like a cracking race from the cycling news feed. Disgrace there was no live coverage of it.

neris

Roads don't look great there

Eddie off the back but looks like he's hanging on during the climb. Crashed on wednesday.

godtabh

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Eddie off the back but looks like he's hanging on during the climb. Crashed on wednesday.

He looked like was going back wards but he managed to stay on and should be over the top with the rest of the group

neris

Riders should get time bonuses for pinging running spectators in the had with either fists or water bottles

dastardly00

It's all a bit pedestrian at the moment

dastardly00

Less than 25 km to go and only one climb left. Big peloton

retalivity

Cmon fuglsang!!!

coco0981

retalivity wrote: »

Cmon fuglsang!!!

Be great to see him win, definitely deserves it. Needs to stay away

retalivity

Jesus christ!

Weepsie

How on earth did he stay up?

coco0981

Not sure how he managed to stay upright there!!!! Some control

at1withmyself

Wow, my heart missed some beats there

dastardly00

I think something came out of my bum there!

godtabh

Some save there

coco0981

25 seconds with less than 3k to go, he has it now

Heart in the mouth stuff there, what a save.

Love it, pumping the fist when he spotted the Danish flag there.

kal7

Great save. Scary. Well done Kangel

dastardly00

Fugslang was the strongest rider by far; well deserved. He was well supported by his team matters too. Impressive ride by Bora-Hansgrohe as well

cunavalos

Hatch clearly hasn't been taking lessons from Kirby otherwise we would have been inundated with Fuglsang = Birdsong for the last 20km.

Melodeon

cunavalos wrote: »

Hatch clearly hasn't been taking lessons from Kirby otherwise we would have been inundated with Fuglsang = Birdsong for the last 20km.

Just finished watching the stage, and I said something just like that to the family!
"Thank goodness CK isn't commentating or we'd be hearing endless Birdsong nonsense!"

I'd say Fuglsang was running on pure adrenaline after that 'twitch'!!! :eek:

fat bloke

Well done Fuglsang. I don't understand how he managed it on rim brakes and a non-aero frame. Almost as if the massive gains were just marketing...;)


Looked like the vast majority towards the pointy end at the finish were on similarly obselete tech!

Here's the brown shorts moment, still can't believe he held onto it at that speed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-beIzngIYM

Raam

https://twitter.com/CafeRoubaix/status/1122544756100411392

Classics winning bikes
Omloop: Specialized
Kuurne: Specialized
Strade: Specialized
Sanremo: Specialized
E3: Specialized
GW: Colnago
Dwars: Canyon
Ronde: Cannondale
Scheldeprijs: Specialized
Roubaix: Specialized
Brabantse: Canyon
Amstel: Canyon
Fleche: Specialized
Liege: Argon 18

All that Specialized and not a single one from their marquee rider

sy

A lot more Canyon in that list next year . Delighted for the winner.