Youtubery: 2008 LBL

by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 24, 2009 6:15 PM EDT in Cafe Happy Hour!

Ten minute highlight package of the last 35km, with Basque commentary (I think). One point to take from this: if they put the line in the same place, it's a pretty short distance from the last corner, which makes for an abbreviated sprint. This might give Andy Schleck or another one of the favorites not known for sprinting a fighting chance: attack before the last corner and hope the faster finishers can't wind it up until after, when it may be too late. Anyway, the vid:

Lieje-Bastogne-Lieje 2008 (via XABIERIG)

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Bai, a Basque feed.

Doesn’t look like etb are doing it live this year, which is a shame as they always have a reliable feed when they choose to broadcast things….

by Albertina on Apr 24, 2009 6:29 PM EDT reply actions

I like the sound of that

Would love to see Andy make another nice finish, like 1st place.

by sminer on Apr 24, 2009 9:57 PM EDT reply actions

But the finish has always been like this, hasn't it?

by tedvdw on Apr 25, 2009 1:47 AM EDT reply actions

Si

The finishing climb is only like 6% gradient and fairly short. It isn’t really enough for a pure climber to get and hold a gap. Fairly fast finish from the St-Nick on (btw, the race orgs use the hyphen, who am I to argue?)

by Jen See on Apr 25, 2009 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions