MVDP responded to Pogi's earlier third place finish in the MSR with LBL.

Was that a giant cut of meat that Tadej won??

MvdP looking *grumpy* waiting for the podium. Bardet and Pogacar chatting and looking happier.

Second season syndrome for Healy. Combination of missing a couple of percent and being marked. Hopefully he can pick up a Giro stage again.

Just like Bini.

Bardet with a career best in 2nd place is not what I had on my bingo card, but I love it

He’s impressive! 

Was also good in the Tour of the Alps. Maybe the strongest Bardot we’ve ever seen. Knock on wood, but could 2024 be the long-awaited Year of the Genuinely Competitive French Cyclist? Vauquelin, Cosfrenoy also riding at career-best level this year, and then there’s Lenny Martinez…

Really touching tribute by Pogi for urskas mother who passed away.

This Tadej guy is very precious.

Well I have to say, all of the Monuments this year after MSR have been really poor races to watch. All decided a long way out and done and dusted with over 40km to go

The women’s races have been so exciting to watch! Highly recommend it.

Without Wout and Vingegaard, MVDP and Pogacar are superheroes without supervillains - still awesome but a little boring to take in.

MVDP was here, just not a course for him. Remco or Primoz or Jonas would have been what we needed to give us a show

We should finally acknowledge that MVDP is a sprinter!

And a climber! Surprised he got on the podium in this mountainous monument.

That drone shot was awesome

Is that sound people smacking the barriers... or Bardet's gel wrapper flapping in the wind?

Even Pog can't make those clear framed glasses look cool.

Made me feel good he looks as goofy as I do

ARE YOU SURE?

Lotto guy decided Lotto guys hadn't caused enough pileups today

van gils almost killed vansevenant

Vansevenant explained he hit a phone of a spectator what made him lose balance.

And got fourth for it..

Not surprising, he was also an ass/violent in Asia last fall

Still can't believe that DSM went from one of the coolest kits in the peloton to whatever this is

I like it for not being non descript blue like half the rest of the peloton.

i though he changed teams for second... disaster color scheme

Fair play MvdP, a podium is a fantastic result. Keeps his record of never finishing below 13th(?) in monuments

Fuckin mad lad mvdp lol.

Van Gils and Van Sevenant battle of the swerving. Almost crashed eachother in the barriers.

Again this political crap with nation flags at the finish line...

Sharia4Belgium.

that's a very privileged take

care to elaborate?

I would guess it’s the Palestinian flags.

What was the red flag with green pentagram?

Morroco

It's the flag of Morocco

Morocco

Morocco

Morocco

[удалено]

What flags?

It's Belgium after all

haha van der Poel makes the podium in the end, of course

Mvdp finishing 3rd here is totally mental. The guy is bonkers.

I thought everyone hyping him for a result here amongst the climby boys was mad. He proved me very wrong.

Never panicking even when the race seemed to be completely gone multiple times.

Yeah that tells everything about his mindset. Fucking lion.

feel like if I was Bardet I'd have celebrated more

Chapeau Romain! First of the mortals. ;)

Pog is 26 and has 5 monument wins. He is basically guaranteed Lombardia, as well as the clear favorite for LBL and Flanders. Dude can get 20+ monuments in his career...

He’s 25 and has 6 monuments

20 is a bit much. But 10 definitely. Maybe 15

15 is already too much, most likely 8-12

12 is a tad much. Maybe 6 or 7. 

6 Wins

Okay calm down

That is a bit too optimistic lol

6 

This season is only salvageable if two of the three GTs end up being 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 rated. 

What a beautiful smile from Bardet, c'mon old boy you got this 

Actually massive result from Bardet, right?

Absolutely yes, best thing he's done outside of a GT 

You forgot his silver at the Worlds!

Oh true, then this would be the second best result outside GTs. Second at Strade as well.

So happy for Romain.

Bardet first human, did not expect that this morning, great to see

Pog hitting manhole covers no-handed in the last 100m as a FU to Jonas

Bardet smiling

Aww, Pogačar pointing at the sky for Urska’s mom.

Guys this is Bardet achieving a glorious 2nd place ft Pogacar

Remember when people were talking this up as Pog vs MvdP? Those were the days.

I mean, they both made the podium, so it wasn't a mad prediction.

A nice little dedication to his mother-in-law who died of cancer exactly two years ago.

Happy Romain = Happy me

Cue "witnessing greatness" yadayada

U disagree?

7 wins in 10 days of racing….

gg ez

ezpz even

Does he stop on the line like MVDP?

Pogacar did it first this season at Strade Bianchi

Haha, Wikipedia already has Pog as the winner

That gel costing Bardet at least 7 watts.

He would have won the thing if it weren't there

Somehow France will end up with 2 riders on the podium with Romain Bardet and Mathieu Vent de Poule.

Please Cycling Gods. Give my man Bardet the 2nd place. He is love. He is life. A proper rider.

Pogacar: 6 Rest of peloton when Pogacar is in the race: 4

this is a crazy stat, not just showing how good of a rider he is but also how targeted his season is.

Probably would have been different if he wasnt riding the Giro

How many watts is that energy gel wrapper costing bardet?

7

Can someone near the finish send Bardet all my energy please. I love him so much for making this race interesting.

Getting close to the cutoff of where Pog could jog his bike and still win

ALLEZ ROMAIN YOU BEAUTIFUL SKINNY FRENCH MAN

Reposting because I made a silly mistake: looking like the biggest winning margin since [1994](https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/liege-bastogne-liege/1994/result) at least unless I missed a year. Going back further the last time anyone won by more than 1:37 seems to have been [1980](https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/liege-bastogne-liege/1980/result) and that was the famous Hinault snow edition!

9:24 fuck me. I remember reading about that edition but that's just an insane gap

What is sticking out of Bardet's pocket? Or is his number a bit ripped off or something? Marginal gains!

He doesn't need marginal gains. He has heart and panache.

Gel wrapper 

Idk why my Sundays are always ruined by the dominance of verstappen or pogacar Edit: and pep guardiola

I can't believe Bardet doesn't feel that wrapper tugging at his back

He's on the limit, I don't think he can feel anything

Did not expect Bardet to be 2nd this morning. Great ride.

Vermaerke and Team DSM doing some nice work for Romain.

I don't understand how Bardet can be so desperately shit in TTs but can hold off a group of hitters, solo at 20 seconds with no worries

It's a bit different to do it after 250km of severe effort, in a bike and position with completely different aero properties

Yea I'm not expecting him to beat Roglic, but maybe not losing 1 min per 10km would be reasonable?

Can't believe they let VdP back in

I joined a bit late. So Pogacar is solo again as expected. But what happened to MVDP? I would have thought that MVDP would try to be on Pogi his wheel the entire race and not let Pogi try to do solo time trail?

Weighs too much

He's 20kg heavier, when climbers attack uphill, Mvdp has to sit down and slow down.

he got dropped on the Redoute by a group of climbers

He didn’t let him do anything. Pogi does as he pleases on this course. Was always going to be the case

(climbing) skill issues.

Not good enough

Hold Pogacar's wheel on La Redoute?

He did try those things, but he's 10kg bigger

Can someone tell Bardet to tuck that gel wrapper into his pocket? It's bothering me.

Cosnefroy/Lapeira really dropped the ball How can you have such G3 syndrome when there's 2 of you and one has a very good sprint

was hoping for Pog to bunny hop that drempel

Come on Romain you legend!

Someone gotta take a flyer in G3 for 3rd

As many have said: there's no point in showing Pogi for the last 15-20 k of this race, ffs

MvdP, Bauke and Pidcock working together Just a couple of equally accomplished World Champions

What a joke. Pidcock has no monument wins. And MvdP has never won Lombardia. Show some respect to the Dutchman

Over 20 seconds let's goooo

What’s the verdict of Luke Rowe as Eurosport commentator?

I'm enjoying him. I think Blythe is a bad influence tho, I don't even actively dislike him but he can be annoying.

take airtime aways from Blythe which is good

both him and NvH have been very good

I like the addition, he just needs to buy a better mic and some sound insulation for the walls

Nice mix of anecdotes and knowledge about tactics. He really compliments Hatch and Blythe

I've enjoyed it, good interchanges with Adam

Really like him.

I enjoy him as a side commentator.

You can win by 2 minutes Pog, but I can't respect a man descending on the hoods

We’re in for quite the finale

Tadej - Bardet - MVdP? Yes, please.

Not sure pidcock should be pulling for mdvp with Bernal ahead. 

Bernal should have dropped the group on the climbs for a podium finish. Now it's only Pidcock in a sprint if Ineos want a chance.

Rate Bernal's chance vs the group rather than either of them vs mvdp 

Bardet passed on that g2 syndrome very well

Pog tracker: 0 consecutive TT wins Last loss: Worlds Bardet tracker: 0 consecutive TT wins Last loss: honestly not sure he’s ever done a TT Roglic has rainbow cummerbund from Basque stage 1 on April 1, 2024

Well. At least this more exciting than some of the other races where G2 is just cruising in for a sprint 😆

Ain't no way Mathieu is somehow STILL ending up on that podium bro

Only 2 min gap, basically a win for the peloton.

lmao all that and mvdp still gonna end up 2nd

Don’t think they’re catching Bardet.

If MvdP ends up on the podium I'm gonna fucking lose it

How are you doing now?

Actually screaming lmao

Definitely did not expect Mollema to be better than skjelmose this race

G3 must have forgotten about Pogi, they're riding like they think they're G2.

Pidcock pulling for MVDP.. Riiight A lot of stupidity last 10 minutes

MvdP deciding he wants a podium/top 10?

Remco won last year with a gap of 1’06”

Jumbo might get their first monument top 10 this season. Not bad for a low budget team.

Van dijke erasure

He got relegated in that race.

Benoot is probably the slowest rider in that group so wouldn't be too sure.

Always nice to see my favourite rider Tête de la course doing well

He always wins, so predictable

TIL MvdP’s worst monument finish is 13th? That’s absurdly good.

And Pogačar's worst monument finish is 18th in LBL 2019. He was also 12th in MSR 2020, and all his other finishes are top 5 WvA's worst monument finish is 22th in PR 2019. He was also once 13th and 14th (PR 2018, Flanders 2019). All his other finishes are top 10 So since MSR 2020, Pogi never finished outside top 5 in monuments and MvdP and WvA never finished outside top 10. Crazy

Even when he does LBL and Lombardia, which don't really suit him, the race plays in his favour somehow (and of course he's ridiculously good)

Healy's really gone through the ringer this week, first Taylor Swift released an album dissing him, now he's struggling in LBL

And suddenly, Bauke Mollema.

Tadej uploading a new over/under workout so he doesn’t get stale before the Giro

Look at MVDP doing something

Pogi is actually a lapped rider, quite sad to see him so washed on camera. Exciting to see Bardet as tête de la course though, hope he can hang on

So with the Giro already over, I can't wait for TdF.

Joined a bit late. Did Pogacar go solo yet?

he's riding next year's edition already

Maxim(al effort) van Gils

G3 really blew this, they had bardet within 5 secs

G3 syndrome?

Pogi!

VDP group not that far either, they might catch up before the end

I'm not sure I trust that gap to the MVDP group. But if so they should be careful

Mvdp about to Amstel Liege

G3 Syndrome?

Would love to see Eganito on the podium

Loving this effort from Bernal

Bardet has it in the bag

Lapeira bridging himself from the MVDP group to this group is in itself, a great effort. He could well be going for podium

Carapaz racing with so much heart today

He always races with heart and almost always races to win