Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2017 - Spoilers

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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    inseine wrote:
    What's happening? lost my feed!!!

    Not a huge amount really - attacks going off the front but it keeps coming back together.

    Lots of riders have been shelled, much smaller group.

    GVA's moving up.

    Formolo off the front with 8s @3km
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    3km to go. Nothing happening yet
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  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    2km
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  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    1km
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Dan Martin goes with <1km, maybe 800m? to go

    Followed by Yates
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    ANYONE BUT VALVERDE!!!!!
    Correlation is not causation.
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Valverde's on the case, coming up to Martin - yates can't follow
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    Valverde looks dangerous
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,611
    Panto villan takes it easily, from Martin then Kwiat
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Valverde wins easily, Martin in 2nd.
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    oh dear
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  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    maddog 2 wrote:
    Valverde looks dangerous

    Made it look easy in the end, another second for martin
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
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    Correlation is not causation.
  • Vino'sGhost
    Vino'sGhost Posts: 4,129
    BOOOOOOOOM "my man" won One of the all time greats
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    The old man wins the old lady.
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  • carbonclem
    carbonclem Posts: 1,798
    Oh :(
    2020/2021/2022 Metric Century Challenge Winner
  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    when's the next race that he's not in?
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Probably was Martin's best shot to be fair, go slightly early rather than wait for Valverde to kick it off.
  • dabber
    dabber Posts: 1,982
    All a bit of a yawnfest I thought.
    “You may think that; I couldn’t possibly comment!”

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  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Valverde is class. Dominent.
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  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,444
    Dabber wrote:
    All a bit of a yawnfest I thought.

    Yeah, would have been much more exciting if Formolo or Fraile had managed to make it look like sticking.
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    Classy top ten
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  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    Fair play to Martin. Reckon he gave that his best, unfortunately Valverde's moustache twirling was just better!

    Damnit! (More annoying as I had a couple of quid each on Kwiat and Martin to win)
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    I'm not sure what Kwiatkowski was up to. Right at the back with 1km to go, boxed in when Martin & Valverde moved.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • inseine
    inseine Posts: 5,788
    1 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 6:24:27
    2 Daniel Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors
    3 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Sky 0:00:03
    4 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team Sunweb
    5 Jon Izaguirre (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
    6 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
    7 Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-Scott
    8 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-Scott 0:00:07
    9 Michael Woods (Can) Cannondale-Drapac
    10 Rafal Majka (Pol) Bora-Hansgrohe
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  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    Boring race, but Valverde is a bloody champion. Can't blame Martin this time around. Only Kwiatkowski can be accused of being nowhere among the top 3.

    Michael Matthews in fourth. Fair play.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,228
    How ever does he do it?
  • r0bh
    r0bh Posts: 2,451
    RichN95 wrote:
    I'm not sure what Kwiatkowski was up to. Right at the back with 1km to go, boxed in when Martin & Valverde moved.

    I couldn't work out what happened to Kwia; when Moscon was pulling entering the final he was 3rd wheel, then by the time they started up the last climb he had completely vanished. Weird.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    Martin is the king of making the late late move stick.
    _
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,262
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    How ever does he do it?
    He just seems to know how to time his efforts in the last 500m in this and Flèche. Just experience really.
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