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

[Heston]

Cannot believe we dont have TV pictures when legendary things are happening from the beginning

 

[Netserk]

I guess it's rather unlikely that UAE kept Domen Novak in G1, so the group composition in general is probably not super accurate yet.

you can see novak in the image with de plus pulling

 

[Red Rick]

Good job by everyone in front.

Pogacar has grown a nasty habit of being asleep at the wheel in the first hour of these races because it's never been punished.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Will need to watch the images first to see what happened, if they hit the front due to a crash then it’s foolish, if he just got caught out of position then ride on, regardless I think it will still come back. They should’ve had Mcnulty here.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So we have a number smaller teams in the front group with support riders in them. It would be a good idea to spend some of these support riders now, since they will likely not get a better chance to do damage than now.

 

[Heston]

I guess it's rather unlikely that UAE kept Domen Novak in G1, so the group composition in general is probably not super accurate yet.

Yeah that seems weird. Is there a chance someone mistook the number 5 for number 2 and its actually Cosnefroy?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I think the climbs here are bigger than ant hills.

I consider Schmid to be part of the Bug 6.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

So the whereabouts of Seixas are unknown. According to PCS he's not in group 1 either though.

 

[Lequack]

Cannot believe we dont have TV pictures when legendary things are happening from the beginning

Yeah how can they not show the race in full? Crazy.

 

[Salvarani]

Good job by everyone in front.

Pogacar has grown a nasty habit of being asleep at the wheel in the first hour of these races because it's never been punished.

Give some examples.

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

So the whereabouts of Seixas are unknown. According to PCS he's not in group 1 either though.

Everyone who isn't in group 1 is supposed to be in group 2. There were two Decathlon domestiques in group 1 and they've disappeared; they must have been ordered to stop.

 

[Lequack]

Front group

 

[Heston]

Yeah how can they not show the race in full? Crazy.

But we get all 7 hours of Milano Sanremo

 

[Red Rick]

Even if Decathlon are all in G2, they should not pull

 

[DJO]

A Monument not shown live from the off. A race that was highly anticipated, not live. Pathetic.

 

[Netserk]

from the racecenter

Remco Evenepoel turns La Doyenne upside down from the start
11:00

The Belgian rider went up the road as soon as the flag dropped, along with 53 other riders including his teammate Nico Denz, and now has a sizable gap on the peloton where the rest of the favorites are. Brilliant racing from the winner of the 2022 and 2023 Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

2’30” at kilometre 39
10:54

Between the head of the race and the peloton, led by UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

Good job by everyone in front.

Pogacar has grown a nasty habit of being asleep at the wheel in the first hour of these races because it's never been punished.

I don't even want to imagine what you would be saying if instead of Remco Pogacar was in front and teams like Ineos and Burgos were racing for him

 

[search]

you can see novak in the image with de plus pulling

ah right, didn't notice that. Novak now dropped back though, according to the Velopro ticker, which usually has race radio access.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Novak has been pulled back, late call....

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

from the racecenter

Remco Evenepoel turns La Doyenne upside down from the start
11:00

The Belgian rider went up the road as soon as the flag dropped, along with 53 other riders including his teammate Nico Denz, and now has a sizable gap on the peloton where the rest of the favorites are. Brilliant racing from the winner of the 2022 and 2023 Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

2’30” at kilometre 39
10:54

Between the head of the race and the peloton, led by UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

It was an accident involving Ion Izagirre that split the peloton.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Rogla would have waited in such situation.

 

[Heston]

This is proper racing. Finally the peloton understands how not to race for 2nd behind the pre race favorite

 

[Salvarani]

I don't even want to imagine what you would be saying if instead of Remco Pogacar was in front and teams like Ineos and Burgos were racing for him

I believe he would have used words like arrogant and whatnot.

 

[Coppi-Bartali]

3 minutes. I think it´s over.

 

[Rackham]

2'40" now.

Tick tock. This is a monument. Cycling is absolutely ruined when there's way too much bromance and no one is punished because "let's let the race favorite back in" reasons. No, as a spectator's sport this is way, way better.

Edit: 3 minutes now.