Pogacar Wins Third-straight Liege-bastogne-liege Title

Pogacar's triumph was his 4th triumph successful 5 races this year, pinch 3 of them successful Monuments - nan 5 astir prestigious, and difficult, one-day races successful roadworthy cycling.

The outlier was a second-placed decorativeness astatine Paris-Roubaix past month.

Despite this dominance, successful Seixas he has a caller rival who seems tin of challenging him.

Competing successful his first Liege and only his 2nd ever Monument race, Seixas challenged Pogacar passim arsenic different riders faded away.

He kept up pinch nan four-time Tour de France victor for astir 20km connected nan climb astatine nan Cote de la Redoute, wherever nan winning move had been made by cyclists successful each of nan erstwhile 4 years.

"On nan Redoute climb I was really going heavy but connected nan top, he came adjacent to maine and I was like, 'OK, really impressed'," said Pogacar.

"Maybe backmost successful my head, I was already preparing to do a duel sprint because he was truthful strong."

It was not until nan last onslaught connected nan Cote de la Roche-aux-Faucons that Pogacar near nan young challenger behind, 600m from nan top.

"I tried connected Roche-aux-Faucons, I tried to support my pace... It suits maine ace good and luckily he dropped."

Pogacar is now 1 short of Belgian Eddy Merckx's grounds 5 Liege victories.