retrofit
04-24-2011, 01:01 AM
Live video links at Steephill (http://www.steephill.tv/classics/liege-bastogne-liege/#live)
Gilbert will attempt to join a select group: (http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/liege-bastogne-liege-his/preview)
Should Gilbert succeed on Sunday, he will join only six riders to have won Fleche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in same year: Switzerland's Ferdi Kübler who managed the feat twice (1951 and 1952), Belgians Stan Ockers (1955) and Eddy Merckx (1972), Italians Moreno Argentin (1991) and Davide Rebellin (2004) and Alejandro Valverde (2006).
http://www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/LBL/2011/100/PROFIL.gif
Gilbert will attempt to join a select group: (http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/liege-bastogne-liege-his/preview)
Should Gilbert succeed on Sunday, he will join only six riders to have won Fleche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in same year: Switzerland's Ferdi Kübler who managed the feat twice (1951 and 1952), Belgians Stan Ockers (1955) and Eddy Merckx (1972), Italians Moreno Argentin (1991) and Davide Rebellin (2004) and Alejandro Valverde (2006).
http://www.letour.fr/PHOTOS/LBL/2011/100/PROFIL.gif