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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Copy-of-pogi-progress-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 27, 2026 02:58PM Tadej Pogačar just set the fastest ever average speed, broke the record time on La Redoute, and reportedly set a historic power PB at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. At 44.43 kph, La Doyenne on Sunday was more than 2kph faster than any other edition in history. Pogačar’s lightning-fast…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/horizonPOG2.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 27, 2026 06:06AM Tadej Pogačar won Liège-Bastogne-Liège. That part didn’t change. What did change Sunday was how deep Pogačar had to go to win. The 19-year-old French phenom Paul Seixas went toe to toe with Pogačar and never flinched. “It was my first Liège-Bastogne-Liège. I really wanted to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Z8D_6130.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 27, 2026 02:19AM Tadej Pogačar wore a black armband and pointed to the sky after winning Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday to dedicate his victory to former teammate Cristian Muñoz, who died last week aged 30. Ardennes monument started Sunday with a minute of silence as riders paid tribute to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/remcohpoirzonLBL.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published April 26, 2026 01:09PM Liège-Bastogne-Liège started strangely and unraveled even faster for Remco Evenepoel, who lined up Sunday as a top favorite but had to settle for third. The Belgian superstar was swept into a bizarre early-race split that scrambled the script and saw him burning matches too soon.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2273227260.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated April 26, 2026 11:10AM Demi Vollering showed she is back to her very best on Sunday, following up her uphill victory on Wednesday in Flèche Wallonne with a stomping solo success in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The Dutch FDJ United-Suez rider attacked the other race favorites on the climb of La Redoute…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272660519.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated April 26, 2026 09:37AM Tadej Pogačar fended off speculation that Paul Seixas might match him in Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday, but not before the Frenchman gave real proof he is a major champion in the making. The 19 year old was the only one able to hold Pogačar when he…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272641805.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 26, 2026 07:38AM Liège-Bastogne-Liège exploded earlier than expected Sunday after Remco Evenepoel slipped into a dangerous split that put Tadej Pogačar and Paul Seixas onto the defensive barely an hour into the Belgian monument. The Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe leader infiltrated a front group that swelled to roughly 50 riders…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/JENNY-KELLER-PHOTOGRAPHY_DEFINITION-FILMS_LevisGranFondo_LFG8804-scaled.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated April 26, 2026 01:28PM Marcis Shelton pulled off a major result Saturday, winning the Skipstone’s Growler Road Race at Levi’s Granfondo in Windsor, California. The 21-year-old Competitive Edge Racing rider was part of a strong six-rider lead group in the finale and was quickest in the gallop to the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2271548953.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated April 25, 2026 04:27PM Things unraveled for Remco Evenepoel during last year’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but the two-time winner is sounding altogether more confident this time around. The Belgian was just 59th twelve months ago, over three minutes behind the winner Tadej Pogačar. But the odds of him following up on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272940498.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 24, 2026 01:03PM Cristian Muñoz, a former teammate of Tadej Pogačar at UAE Emirates-XRG, died overnight after complications from an infection sustained following a crash in France last week, his team confirmed Friday. He was 30. Muñoz, who raced with UAE from 2019 to 2021, died in Spain…