Liège - Bastogne - Liège 2026, one-day monument, 26th April

[topcat]

5* - eulalio
4* - scaroni, izagirre
3* - romeo, champussin, zambanini, schmidt, vansevenent
2* - pinarello, foldager, Germans, van etbelt, vauquelin
1* - sainbayer, otruba, costioux, evenepoel, sexass,

6*-Alaphilippe

 

[vappa]

6*-Alaphilippe

7* Vino, Landa

 

[Ilmaestro99]

That's just cheating! You can't just... throw all the Germans together like that.

I meant quentin hermans sorry

 

[topcat]

7* Vino, Landa

Not on the startlist.

 

[vappa]

Not on the startlist.

Formal protest

(Btw, startlists aren't official yet)

 

[Berniece]

That's not the same thing

It is, but doesn’t matter we are going in circles. If we are lucky we’ll see it this Sunday, but I still think pogi will just finish solo

 

[Berniece]

Is McNulty sick?
A team with less climbers than in previous years.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2047306814350405864

View: https://x.com/TeamEmiratesUAE/status/2047306814350405864

That’s a really weak team, but I think the likes of RBH and Decathlon will help them, unfortunately. Otherwise we could’ve gotten an exciting chaotic race if there wasn’t anyone to properly control it

 

[Tim Cahill]

Red Bull train odds-on for being on the front when the broadcast starts, for who else is going to chase the threatening break of Mathis Le Berre and that speed skater from Tudor down.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Red Bull train odds-on for being on the front when the broadcast starts, for who else is going to chase the threatening break of Mathis Le Berre and that speed skater from Tudor down.

I am not sure Rondel will be riding this race, and Jasch can't unless he gets promoted right away which would require that someone gets demoted.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I am not sure Rondel will be riding this race, and Jasch can't unless he gets promoted right away which would require that someone gets demoted.

Demote Alaphilippe, the French Froome has checked out, pay him millions to do Tour of Mozambique for the next 2 years.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Demote Alaphilippe, the French Froome has checked out, pay him millions to do Tour of Mozambique for the next 2 years.

They should rather pick Küng if he won't be able to race again this year anyway.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

5* - eulalio
4* - scaroni, izagirre
3* - romeo, champussin, zambanini, schmidt, vansevenent
2* - pinarello, foldager, Germans, van etbelt, vauquelin
1* - sainbayer, otruba, costioux, evenepoel, sexass,

I find it insulting that you omitted the Dark Lord from my picture.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I find it insulting that you omitted the Dark Lord from my picture.

Because his ranking is in the negative -666*, causing a black hole that swallows all of cycling.

 

[HashRouge]

That’s a really weak team, but I think the likes of RBH and Decathlon will help them, unfortunately. Otherwise we could’ve gotten an exciting chaotic race if there wasn’t anyone to properly control it

I think they will too. They will both want to control early attacks and then see if Remco/ Seixas can stick with Pog on Redoute.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

That’s a really weak team, but I think the likes of RBH and Decathlon will help them, unfortunately. Otherwise we could’ve gotten an exciting chaotic race if there wasn’t anyone to properly control it

UAE doesn't seem strong enough to suffocate the competition and control the race until Redoute.
Maybe Pogi will attack earlier then? (possibly together with Evenepoel and Seixas initially). Stockeu followed by Haute Levee is a good combo. We could have the longest finale in recent LBL history.

 

[Gigs_98]

I think the chance that someone can hang on on La Redoute is there. I think Pogacar would win regardless but it would be a nice change if this is not again a race decided within 1 minute.

On another note, I've recently been thinking about how long it's been since certain races have had a good or great edition. And as much as we like to complain about 2020's cycling I think with almost any big race it's actually not been that long. And then there is LBL and I gotta admit, I don't think I've seen a great edition of that race once. I'm not even sure I've seen a good one. For reference the first edition I've watched was 2013 and I think I haven't missed one since. So if I remember everything correctly 2013-2017 were all decided after Saint Nicolas, 2018 was essentiall over once Jungels had a gap, 2019-2021 had no significant action before RaF and we've had La Redoute solos since. Maybe Evenepoels first win was a good race because iirc it wasn't clear he could stay away for a while after La Redoute. I guess 2021 was alright. But like genuinely good? I think you have to go back further than 2013 and that's honestly very sad.

 

[Taxus4a]

UAE doesn't seem strong enough to suffocate the competition and control the race until Redoute.
Maybe Pogi will attack earlier then? (possibly together with Evenepoel and Seixas initially). Stockeu followed by Haute Levee is a good combo. We could have the longest finale in recent LBL history.

They are not the only team to control. anyway they have an strong team, with 2 man of the Tour Team, plus the 4th on Huy yesterday.

 

[Berniece]

UAE doesn't seem strong enough to suffocate the competition and control the race until Redoute.
Maybe Pogi will attack earlier then? (possibly together with Evenepoel and Seixas initially). Stockeu followed by Haute Levee is a good combo. We could have the longest finale in recent LBL history.

Would be nice, but then we’ll get those two also taking turns with Pogacar which is dumb. Evenepoel’s ego is too big not to take equal turns. Seixas on the other hand might not help like last years UEC RR, but I think he’ll be too eager.

 

[Cookster15]

Lots of anticipation. Can the 19 year old phenom match Pogacar? Will Remco be able to do anything?

Pogacar to win from Seixas who will be the only one able to hang with him.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Would be nice, but then we’ll get those two also taking turns with Pogacar which is dumb. Evenepoel’s ego is too big not to take equal turns. Seixas on the other hand might not help like last years UEC RR, but I think he’ll be too eager.

Evenepoel has an alpha mentality, he won't just suck Pogacar's wheel for the whole race. Seixas will be helping as well until he cooks himself (he's most likely to end up like that) .

 

[canina82]

I think the chance that someone can hang on on La Redoute is there. I think Pogacar would win regardless but it would be a nice change if this is not again a race decided within 1 minute.

On another note, I've recently been thinking about how long it's been since certain races have had a good or great edition. And as much as we like to complain about 2020's cycling I think with almost any big race it's actually not been that long. And then there is LBL and I gotta admit, I don't think I've seen a great edition of that race once. I'm not even sure I've seen a good one. For reference the first edition I've watched was 2013 and I think I haven't missed one since. So if I remember everything correctly 2013-2017 were all decided after Saint Nicolas, 2018 was essentiall over once Jungels had a gap, 2019-2021 had no significant action before RaF and we've had La Redoute solos since. Maybe Evenepoels first win was a good race because iirc it wasn't clear he could stay away for a while after La Redoute. I guess 2021 was alright. But like genuinely good? I think you have to go back further than 2013 and that's honestly very sad.

2011 was a fun edition.

 

[Netserk]

i think both 2012 and 2013 were " good "

2008 was great

 

[Tim Cahill]

That edition where Lance attacked with one of the Basque guys was decent, maybe Mayo or Sanchez. Yeah that’s all I have sorry. Ciciban race.

 

[Berniece]

Evenepoel has an alpha mentality, he won't just suck Pogacar's wheel for the whole race. Seixas will be helping as well until he cooks himself (he's most likely to end up like that) .

Maybe Seixas has a DS like Voeckler that yells “do not ride” over and over again. It got him his bronze medal last year

 

[canina82]

i think both 2012 and 2013 were " good "

2008 was great

2010 was great.