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RSS FeedsValverde prepared to take up mantel as top favourite for Liege-Bastogne-Liege
(Cyclingnews.com)

 
 

22 april 2017 07:49:19

 
Valverde prepared to take up mantel as top favourite for Liege-Bastogne-Liege
(Cyclingnews.com)
 


Alejandro Valverde is ready to take on the status as the top favourite for Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Movistar management say, as the countdown to 2017´s final Spring Monument continues. `It´s like every year. There will be other riders who are up there but if you are looking for a reference point in Liege, everybody´s going to say `Alejandro`,` Movistar sports director Jose Luis Arrieta told Cyclingnews. `There´s all this fuss about whether he will draw equal to Moreno Argentin` - who has four victories in Lige-Bastogne-Liege, one less than Eddy Merckx´s all-time record of five. `But that´s not something that particularly obsesses him, even if no other rider who´s currently in the peloton has as many Liege wins as he does.`ADVERTISEMENT Nor is it new for Valverde to feel the heat of being a top contender in La Doyenne: as the winner of Liege in 2006, 2008 and 2015, Valverde holds the record for the greatest time lapse between two victories in the Ardennes Classic. With a fifth win in Fleche Wallonne now in his palmares, there´s no doubt who will be the man to watch when the riders roll out of the Place Saint-Lambert square in central Liege on Sunday morning. And Arrieta recognises that Movistar will be expected to do the bulk of the spadework when it comes to controlling the race early on. `There are 200 riders in the peloton of a major Classic and controlling all of them with a team of eight is not exactly straightforward, but that makes the whole squad really important, too.` With that in mind, Movistar will present an identical line-up as in Amstel and Flèche Wallonne, with Dani Moreno, who played a key role for Valverde in his victory on Wednesday, expected to be an important support rider on Sunday´s finale. You can read more at Cyclingnews.com


 
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