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PeloPics: Bob Jungels soloed to career-defining Liège–Bastogne–Liège victory on Sunday. The Luxembourg Champion attacked in the last 20 kilometers and scored the first ever win for Quick-Step Floors in “La Doyenne" - Photo and video gallery.

April 23, 2018 - The Spring Classics season ended with Bob Jungels carrying on the Quick-Step domination in Liège-Results and videos from La Doyenne and the Alps. MPCC unhappy with Froome-Top Story. Other cycling news: Injuries for Bettiol and Haller, Romandie teams, Van Avermaet for Yorkshire, Vuelta jerseys, Worlds'18, Polartec-Kometa website and a snowbound 1980 Liège.

Race Report: On Sunday afternoon, Bob Jungels topped off a perfect spring campaign for the Quick-Step Floors team but soloing to the finish line of the oldest Classic on the calendar - Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Ed Hood takes up the story from the Ardennes.

Author Peter Cossins describes in his history of that first 1903 Tour de France, the inelegantly titled “Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep,” the original Tour de France, something totally new and untried and flawed in many ways, “should be considered as one of the greatest events in sporting history.”

PeloPics: This Sunday will see the pro peloton attack the tough climbs of the Ardennes in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège one-day Classic, the oldest Classic on the calendar. 1986 was a wet and cold edition of La Doyenne, but Italian, Moreno Argentin came out on top - Photo gallery from Liège '86.

PeloPics: Bob Jungels soloed to career-defining Liège–Bastogne–Liège victory on Sunday. The Luxembourg Champion attacked in the last 20 kilometers and scored the first ever win for Quick-Step Floors in “La Doyenne" - Photo and video gallery.

PeloPics: The oldest one-day Classic kicks off from Liège to battle its way to Bastogne before coming back again for the finish Ans. 'La Doyenne' is always a hard race and the riders have been out to have a look at the course - Photo gallery.

PeloPics: This Sunday will see the pro peloton attack the tough climbs of the Ardennes in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège one-day Classic, the oldest Classic on the calendar. 1986 was a wet and cold edition of La Doyenne, but Italian, Moreno Argentin came out on top - Photo gallery from Liège '86.

Race Report: On Sunday afternoon, Bob Jungels topped off a perfect spring campaign for the Quick-Step Floors team but soloing to the finish line of the oldest Classic on the calendar - Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Ed Hood takes up the story from the Ardennes.

Race Preview: There have been many memorable moments in 'La Doyenne' over the years, well, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège one-day Classic has been running since 1892. Sunday sees the WorldTour peloton hit the stiff Walloon climbs and Ed Hood has all the information you need to know from the Ardennes. The 2018 Liège PEZ Preview.

Race Report: Julian Alaphilippe took advantage of the excellent effort from his team to finally unseat Alejandro Valverde as the King of the Mur. The Young Frenchman threw down the gauntlet, but the 'mature' Spaniard fell short by the finish line.

Author Peter Cossins describes in his history of that first 1903 Tour de France, the inelegantly titled “Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep,” the original Tour de France, something totally new and untried and flawed in many ways, “should be considered as one of the greatest events in sporting history.”

Amstel '17: The cobbles are behind us and the hills of the Ardennes are rearing up on the WorldTour horizon. Peter Easton has been guiding rides over the bergs of the Amstel Gold Race for years with VeloClassic Tours, here are his strongest memories from the not so low-country.

Roadside PEZ: The 2018 edition of Paris-Roubaix is only hours away but onlookers in the small northern town of Templeuve-en-Plévèle could be forgiven for thinking that they have stepped back in time to 1896. A curious cyclist who looks like he might have been roommates with Maurice Garin pedals down the street.

Big hilite for a die-hard fan like me was running into Team Elevate-KHS Belgian Waffle Ride winner Brian McCulloch at the Xpedo booth at Sea Otter Classic - where I learned something interesting about the Xpedo Thrust pedals Brian rode to win the race.

Toolbox: Ahhhhh - it’s spring-time once again. Especially for those living in northern climates, the weather is warming up, the snow is off the roads and it’s time to enjoy riding outside. But it’s also time for local flora to come out of their winter hibernation and re-activate seasonal allergies - here's some help.

Toolbox: Watching the final crush of Milan Sanremo is to view the crescendo of many hours of impressive metabolism. 1000 kilojoule/hour are common place in the pro cycling peloton, and most surely the last hour of M-S-R is way above that value. Those guys are lean and mean - they've optimized their body mass to build anaerobic power.  What about you?

The sports nutrition and supplements industry is a multi-billion dollar business. To cut through the pseudoscience and marketing flim-flam masquerading as science, the International Olympic Committee just published an excellent scientific consensus on “Dietary Supplements and the High Performance Athlete.”

This Trek is a special bike for many reasons: it has suspension, it has ridden Paris-Roubaix, it's an ex-team bike and it holds great memories of a wonderful man who is no longer with us. Martin Clark put the bike together in memory of his friend and took it back to Roubaix.

Today's reader is Aaron from Australia who has recently added to his ever growing stable of Specialized bikes with a new Allez Sprint LTD in bright pink which certainly doesn't go unnoticed on the roads down under.

Today's rig is a Cervélo S3 that was bought as a frame only back in 2011 but has received some classy upgrades to put it easily on par with more modern machines. Built up with SRAM Red and some sweet carbon rims from Fairwheelbikes the bike weighs in at a very light 6.32 kg to make it a great climbing and flats bike for owner Twain from San Francisco.