Ben Healy finishes fourth in prestigious Liège-Bastogne-Liège Classic via IrishTimesSport
“QuickStep [Evenepoel’s team] took it up from the start. It was just another attritional race again. Maybe I lacked a bit on the climbs today but I just dieseled away, I guess.”
He may well have taken second had the final 12 kilometres been tougher, but Pidcock and Buitrago were able to hang on. “I didn’t quite have it to drop them on the Cote de [la Roche-aux] Faucons,” he said. “In the sprint I maybe jumped a little bit too early. I sensed a bit of hesitation and was hoping they would look at each other ... I gave it a go.”
Earlier, world number one Tadej Pogačar crashed out of the race with approximately 85 kilometres covered. He sustained fractures to the scaphoid and lunate bones in his left wrist and was due to undergo surgery on Sunday.
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