Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2017

[echappist]

Originally Posted by livingminimal

Dying for a ****ing legit eurosport app for the amazon fire.


The Kodi streams just aren't as reliable as I need them to be.

NBCSG has been great, but just Paul this morning was...agonizing.

Android is the way to go here. Somehow the Eurosport App for android isnt geo restricted like the iOS app. Requires more circuitous way to obtain it, but doable

[echappist]

Originally Posted by livingminimal

Agree. and Flèche. Amstel showed they need to figure out how to better manage Huy and a better way to break up the race in Liege.

let's not forget Albasini while we are at it. Once linked to a doping investigation, also became an "evergreen" type in his mid-30s. Surprised that Henao wasn't able to shake Albasini on the steep slopes of St. Nicholas.

perhaps they should take a look at how the mini-Liege stage of the Eneco Tour is ran, as Wellens twice sneaked away to win solo on those stages. Brutally hard parcours per se shouldn't be something that is desirable if it doesn't make the viewing exciting.

[bheight1]

Originally Posted by choke

I know many don't like Valverde but you have to give him big props for this (note the second paragraph)....

As for someone who obviously excels at the Ardennes races....Anna van der Breggen. She won all three this week...Amstel, Fleche and LBL.

Total throwback, wins Classics, stages, Grand Tour, holds record for WC podiums--we haven't seen an uphill sprinter like him. That was a great gesture to the widow and family. Class! I went to see the showdown between Paolo Bettini and Peter Van Petegem at the 2003 WC and when Igor Astarloa attacked the small select group last trip up escarpment, with rookie Valverde back in the peloton, the gold was sealed with the hesitation/tactics with silver and bronze likely going to Italy and Belgium but somehow, someway from nowhere like a "bullet" Valverde got up to give Spain the rare 1st and 2nd place finish. Been a fan ever since...

[RockinTukker]

Originally Posted by FlashUNC

The way he just walked away from the field on the Mur du Huy and now into the LBL finish line....Sure....Totally clean at 36.

A little like the African-American Studies program at Chapel Hill....