Tadej Pogacar wins his second Liège-Bastogne-Liège
Basque language irakurri: Tadej Pogacarrek bigarrenez irabazi du Liège-Bastogne-Liège lasterketa
He Slovenian Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) won alone this Sunday in the 110th edition of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège, in which has sealed his second victory after escaping 34 kilometers from the finish line.
The Slovenian, already the winner in Liege in 2021, has won the race with a advantage of 1:39 over Frenchman Roman Bardet (dsm-firmenich PostNL) and 2:02 on the Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who led the pack to complete the podium after coming back after being delayed by a collective fall.
Pello Bilbao has entered Van der Poel’s group, 2:02 behind the winner and Ion Izagirrewith the same time, has been 19th.
The race has been marked by a collective fall that has weighed down Pogacar’s main rivals, among them Van der Poel. The dropped group was 1:30 behind the leaders before managing to link up with the peloton.
Until then, Liège-Bastogne-Liège had passed peacefully. But the massive fall, with 95 kilometers to go and before the climbs to Wanne, Stockeu and Haute-Levée, has left many of the favorites trapped.
Van der Poel He was surprised by the accident and soon found himself more than a minute behind the leader, already led by Pogacar’s UAE Emirates team.
The British Thomas Pidcock (Ineos-Grenadiers), winner of the Amstel Gold Race seven days ago, has also been in the group of those trapped by the fall.
The two groups met again with 71 kilometers to go.
Pogacar’s seventh victory
With this Sunday, Pogacar has signed his number victory 70 as a professional cyclist and the seventh of this season, after the Strade Bianche at the beginning of March and four stages and the general of the Volta a Catalunya.
CLASSIFICATION
1 – POGACAR Tadej (UAE) 6:13:48
2 – BARDET Romain (dsm-firmenich) + 1:39
3 – VAN DER POEL Mathieu (Alpecin) + 2:02
4 – VAN GILS Maxim (Lotto) mt
5 – PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien (Decathlon) mt
6 – VANSEVENANT Mauri (Soudal) mt
7 – MADOUAS Valentin (Groupama) mt
8 – LUTSENKO Alexey (Astana) mt
9 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain) mt
10 – PIDCOCK Thomas (INEOS) mt
Source: Eitb
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