97th Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2011

[Moondance]

VDB2 cooked.

Now just Vanendert for Gilbert.

 

[luckyboy]

Harmon keeps banging on about how Cummings beat Contador uphill in February.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Harmon keeps banging on about how Cummings beat Contador uphill in February.

Did he mention the 15 people who beat him uphill at Castilla y León when he punctured, or the 10 that beat him uphill at La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday?

 

[dlwssonic]

Harmon has an obssesion with cummings. keeps on talking about his big engine and how young he is blah blah blah

 

[cineteq]

The gap is not coming down...panic button time?

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

CN live update:

Situation:

Eduard Vorganov (Katusha), Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM), Tony Gallopin (Cofidis), Mathias Frank (BMC), Enrico Gasparotto (Astana), Juan Manuel Garate (Rabobank), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Jerome Pineau (Quick Step), Blel Kadri (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Dario Cataldo (Quick Step), Damiano Caruso (Liquigas-Cannondale), Laurens Ten Dam (Rabobank) and Kanstantsin Siutsou (HTC-Highroad)

Peloton at 1:42

 

[luckyboy]

Did he mention the 15 people who beat him uphill at Castilla y León when he punctured, or the 10 that beat him uphill at La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday?

Nah he said Cummings is the only guy who has beaten him uphill this year.

Forgot about TJVG who was second on that stage in Algarve.

 

[dlwssonic]

The gap is not coming down...panic button time?

nope GVA time!

 

[Ferminal]

La Redoute is on.

 

[Moondance]

Ohhh... Someone has started working the peloton. Gap is collapsing.

 

[Ferminal]

Gap down 30s in a few mins... RvV timing all over again?

 

[cineteq]

a good selection is coming up in the peloton...

 

[mulletCobra]

The gap is not coming down...panic button time?

I have a panic room. I fully intend to enter it and sit in the fetal position with my hands over my ears, swaying back and forth and humming the nigerian national anthem if Gilbert doesn't win.

 

[Christian]

Denifl crashed

 

[auscyclefan94]

gap coming down quickly

 

[dlwssonic]

I got scared when i saw a leopard down, thought it was a schleck luckily its their smallest rider

 

[Ferminal]

Go Gaspa...

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

de gendt shelled

 

[Christian]

chavanel dropped

go maxime!!!!

 

[spalco]

I hope the Leopards aren't just pulling Gilbert to victory.

 

[auscyclefan94]

schlecks starting to cause trouble!

 

[Moondance]

Gilbert hugging the Schlecks.

Gasparotto keeping the break alive highhandedly.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

love the commentator "hellishly steep this PITCH" sounded like something else... sw "B"

accurate that'd be

 

[Ferminal]

Not many left in the break now.

 

[jaylew]

I'll be pretty disappointed if Gilbert doesn't win, but I just don't see it happen. Would be cool if he did the trifecta though and write some cycling history. He'd really be the Paolo Bettini of his generation if he manages to win this one. An improved one.

Not yet but on his way. Bettini's 2 Worlds and Oly gold loom large.

I miss anything exciting? Looks like a Roubaix break up the road.