Lampre-Merida train on Liege-Bastogne-Liege course
Rui Costa, fourth at Liege-bastogne-Liege last year, will lead Lampre-Merida on Sunday as the Italian team tries to strike gold in the Belgian monument.
Costa will be joined for La Doyenne by Matteo Bono, Valerio Conti, Mario Costa, Louis Meintjes, Manuele Mori, Jan Polanc and Diego Ulissi.
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In 2015 Costa was fourth in a sprint from a 10-rider group, crossing the line behind winner Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), runner-up Julain Alaphilippe (Etixx-QuickStep) and Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha). Meintjes finished 11th, leading Team Sky's Lars Petter Nordhaug home 10 seconds after the leaders.
The eight Lampre riders who will participate on Sunday started their recon of Sunday's 253km course from the Cote de la Haute-Levée, covering the Col du Rosier, the Col du Maquisard, the Cote de la Redoute, the Cote de la Roche aux Faucons, the Col de Saint Nicolas and the 2016 route's new climb, the Cote de la Rue Naniot. The new hill, which is 600 meters of cobblestones with gradient of 10.5 percent, summits just 2.5km from the finish line.
Valverde sprinting to his 2015 Liège win ahead of Alaphilippe, Rodriguez and Costa.
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