LIÈGE-BASTOGNE-LIÈGE

THE RECENT ROLL CALL of winners at LiègeBastogne-Liège is filled with all sorts of types of riders: general classification winners of Grand Tours, dynamic climbers, big diesel engines who can go the distance and even canny puncheurs with a nose for a winning move.

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It's the oldest of the five 'Monuments' of men's professional cycling, the five biggest one-day races. At over 250km and with more than 4,000m of climbing, it's a truly arduous route, with climbs peppering it throughout. With longer and more gradual climbs at the start, the race heads south through the lush rolling hills of the Belgian Ardennes until Bastogne, where it turns back north for a steeper second half. Through the 90s and 00s, it was won by a series of riders who were subsequently suspended for drug use. With t