
Remco Evenepoel successfully defended his Liège-Bastogne-Liège title to rescue Soudal-QuickStep's Classics season on a day when the highly-anticipated battle between the world champion and Tadej Pogačar fail to come to pass due to the latter suffering multiple fractures to his left wrist.
Under heavy rain, Evenepoel attacked on the Côte de la Redoute with 33km to go - the same climb where he made his winning move 12 months ago - and he went into time trial mode to win his fourth race of the season.