Liège - Bastogne - Liège 2025, 27th April

[Pippo_San]

What impresses me the most is that Tadej could've won every single freakin Monument since the start of the year if not for an incredible MVDP (I don't honestly consider the Amstel because he was just recovering from the hard fought Paris Roubaix).

Never seen anything like that, not even in the nineties.

 

[ppanther92]

The race dynamic would be completely different imho.

I hope because otherwise I am worried for LBL

 

[Didinho]

Remco saying he’s only riding for 1.5 months while everyone doing a full winter. Looking to it race by race how he feels. Legs were empty in the end.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Remco saying he’s only riding for 1.5 months while everyone doing a full winter. Looking to it race by race how he feels. Legs were empty in the end.

He is riding since early February. It is almost 3 months. Did he really say 1,5 months?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Remco saying he’s only riding for 1.5 months while everyone doing a full winter. Looking to it race by race how he feels. Legs were empty in the end.

My legs were also empty at the end. I almost couldn't get out of my couch.

 

[Didinho]

He is riding since early February. It is almost 3 months. Did he really say 1,5 months?

With normal trainings yes. You don’t start your first month doing 6 hour rides.

Just accept what he’s saying. He’s always honest, doesn’t give an excuse today and you still question it.

 

[Peyroteo94]

With normal trainings yes. You don’t start your first month doing 6 hour rides.

Just accept what he’s saying. He’s always honest, doesn’t give an excuse today and you still question it.

Don't be rude. He didn't said that. Now I got it

 

[Netserk]

Just accept what he’s saying. He’s always honest

Lol.

 

[Didinho]

Don't be rude. He didn't said that. Now I got it

Ik heb nog maar anderhalve maand kunnen door trainen. That’s exactly what I translated.

I’m not rude but you’re questioning me first when I’m just saying what he said.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Ik heb nog maar anderhalve maand kunnen door trainen. That’s exactly what I translated.

I’m not rude but you’re questioning me first when I’m just saying what he said.

As an observer to this conversation I don't think you come across as rude at all, maybe it's just a language or interpretation barrier?

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ik heb nog maar anderhalve maand kunnen door trainen. That’s exactly what I translated.

I’m not rude but you’re questioning me first when I’m just saying what he said.

Fair enough mate

 

[Didinho]

As an observer to this conversation I don't think you come across as rude at all, maybe it's just a language barrier?

Yeah maybe a little bit. But it felt like questioning me while I was just translating what he said. Because everyone was waiting for an excuse of Remco.

I’m definitely not rude. I even hate discussions so not looking for it.

 

[Medvind]

Other teams never really believed they could win, they rode for 2nd and 3rd even if they won't admit it.

UAE completely dictated the race, no other team tried to change what was going to be the inevitable.

Maybe Soudal Quick-Step had some hope, but that wanished brutally.

 

[KOM]

happy i went to the gym, so i could fast forward through the stream, closed it with 25km to go seen this movie too many times

 

[Phillip O'Garner]

Cycling is a game of 175 competitors and Tadej Pogacar wins.

 

[AmRacer]

Cycling is a game of 175 competitors and Tadej Pogacar wins.

Mathieu wins sometimes

 

[AmRacer]

I predict we will have our Pog vs Remco battle 2032 when they battle OTL

 

[KZD]

Pogačar again, in his terrain he simply doesn't miss, the way he attacked up La Redoute without barely any effort was incredible. Third Liège win and ninth monument win, absolutely insane stats at 26 years old.

Trek with a great collective performance, three riders in top6, Ciccone is looking in great shape and Nys had surprisingly his best result in his Ardennes campaign.

Happy to see Healy getting into a monument podium, he always puts on a show and rode really well today. Velasco with a great fourth place getting precious points for Astana. Nice to see Verstrynge arriving into the chasing group too.

Regarding Remco, he didn't have good legs today but the way he just switched off on Roche Aux Faucons is concerning. Hope that he can stay strong mentally and use the month of May to build his shape towards the Tour and Worlds because right now he is looking still far from his best.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Happy to see Pog win this one, but I don't like the Remco hate. The guy just returned from 7 months recovery from a terrible crash. He's a brilliant rider, a former winner here, but expecting him to challenge Pog was probably unrealistic. I think that expectation reflected cycling fans' expectations and hopes of a showdown, which Remco's crash absolutely dashed.
I think the fact that Remco won his first race back somewhat blinded us cycling fans to the difficulty of Remco's recovery. He needs some time to get to 100%. He'll be flying by Tour time.

 

[Invicituz]

Another brilliant performance from Tadej Pogačar, winning Liège–Bastogne–Liège for a third time in terrific style. He is now level with Kelly, Coppi, and Girardengo, all on nine Monument victories, two behind De Vlaeminck on eleven, and nine behind Merckx on nineteen. At this rate of win, he should surpass Merckx's record by the time he's thirty.

A fine performance also from Ben Healy, taking his first Monument podium, and Giulio Ciccone in second.

 

[Samamba]

New parcours please, tired of these solo's + bunchsprints behind.

Not that we would have a different winner of course, but at least you get more interesting things behind in the final.

 

[danielzu]

Velasco had a puncture shortly before la redoute. Crazy that he gets 4th in the end. I wonder when champoussin dropped that far behind, he was in really good shape

 

[Samamba]

Velasco had a puncture shortly before la redoute. Crazy that he gets 4th in the end. I wonder when champoussin dropped that far behind, he was in really good shape

I mean not that crazy given how big the group got afterwards, more than 60 riders. Imo Astana got pretty lucky today with how it was raced, or well I guess that just how it goes in LBL nowadays.

 

[Pantani_lives]

When one guy is so much stronger than the rest, there isn't much that the others can do. Pogacar had one of the strongest spring campaigns ever (just behind Merckx in 1975 ). He can create a gap on a climb without leaving the saddle, and expand it in the valley. Healy and Ciccone did what they could, but a podium spot was the highest achievable.

It was apparent that Evenepoel had an off day when he was badly positioned on La Redoute and didn't gain any places. Expectations were too high. Some rest would do him good, but the Tour de Romandie starts the day after tomorrow. Several people will have to lick their wounds after a tough spring campaign that was dominated by a small number of riders.

 

[Leinster]

New parcours please, tired of these solo's + bunchsprints behind.

Not that we would have a different winner of course, but at least you get more interesting things behind in the final.

The riders make the race. The parcours was switched from the Ans finish because a Valverde sprint was becoming too predictable, and for the first few editions it worked; we got a small group sprint, or a late solo from a small group. We haven’t had a race like that the last few years because each time one rider has been too strong for the rest.

If Healy/Ciccone had been racing for the win, that finale would have played out very differently.