Winner of the Tour de France in 2020, Tadej Pogacar offered himself this Sunday Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
The 22-year-old Slovenian prodigy won the sprint ahead of Julian Alaphilippe and David Gaudu.
Not very inspired in the last meters, Alejandro Valverde finished at the foot of the podium on his 41th birthday, ahead of the fifth thief of the group of breakaways, the Canadian Michael Woods.
Bernard Hinault will still wait at least a year for his successor.
The Badger is the last Frenchman to have won this prestigious classic, in 1980. During the 2020 edition, Alaphilippe raised his arms too early, before being downgraded.
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