Hold onto your hats: cycling’s oldest Classic, Liège-Bastogne-Liège is set to see two of its brightest young stars, Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogačar, do battle this Sunday in what is set to be one of the most keenly anticipated duels of the entire season.
A face-off between two of the most charismatic champions of the current peloton in a race as demanding and prestigious as Liège-Bastogne-Liège would be attractive enough no matter what. But the cycling planets have aligned in other ways to heighten the intensity of this particular battle.
