Foldable Bikes Party: Snowy Liege-Bastogne-Liege win for Poels and Team Sky

Monday, 25 April 2016

Snowy Liege-Bastogne-Liege win for Poels and Team Sky - Weekend Wrap

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Liege - Bastogne - Liege

Wout Poels ended Team Sky's search for a win in one of cycling's five monuments with a well timed sprint ahead of an undergeared Michael Albasini (Orica-GreenEdge) and Lampre-Merida's Rui Costa at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

“We went for it on the new cobbled climb. I really like that one now” Poels joked in his winners post-race comments - “and we got a really good gap. The others were looking really strong, but I knew it was a long drag to the finish, and that was good for me.

“I did one little attack, not a really hard one and then I was afraid the bunch would come back, so when we hit the final corner, I went for it again with 150 metres to go. I thought ‘let’s see what happens.’”

Poels, who almost lost a kidney in the 'metz messacre' crash at the 2012 Tour de France, started his season with two stage wins and the overall at Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, a stage at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya and most recently was fourth at La Fleche Wallonne. Coming into the race, Sky were backing Kwiatkowski with Chris Froome in a super domestique role but with the snow and cold conditions across the day, Poels pulled off the biggest win of his career yet.

To read the full race report click here, and for the race home page click here.