Wout van Aert: Evenepoel was by far the strongest at Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Wout van Aert
Wout van Aert on the podium at Liege-Bast𒉰ogne-Liege (Image credit: Getty)

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) wasn’t able 🌄to follow winner Remco Evenepoel on the Côte de la Redoute and he was surprisingly beaten to second place by Quinten Hermans, but he came away from his Liège-Bastogne-Liège debut reassured that he could one day win the race.

The Belgian champion’s third place meant that he became the first rider since Adrie van der Poel in 1986 to finish on the podium of both La Doyenne and Paris-Roubaix in the same year. That achievement was the more remarkable given that Van Aert’s Classics campaign was interrupted by the COVID-19 diagnosis 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:that forced him to mis⛄s the Tour of Flanders.