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Well, Lionel, the classics, the spring classic season is over and did it conclude?

Has it concluded with the sexiest classic yet of the spring?

Well, in this episode, we'll be looking forward to the tour of Romandie.

It starts on Tuesday.

No, no, we won't.

I did joke just before we press record here, Daniel,

that we could have recorded this episode on Friday morning and we'd have been broadly right,

apart from all of the drama in the first couple of hours that we didn't see because I assumed

that liege Baston-Liaage was broadcast from start to finish.

And it was only when I settled down with all my snacks and drinks this morning for another six plus hours in the armchair,

that it came back to me that no, ASO and the Belgian organ, the Belgian broadcasters,

they generally joined the race with around about 150k to go, don't they?

I remember being out there in 2019.

Usually more than enough, more than enough.

Which is normally, yeah, much more than enough.

Because liege, Baste on liege, being as hard as it is,

what would we have ordinarily expected?

We would have seen a group of six away,

three of them from Wanty Group Go Gobert, and two from Baloas, Flanders, maybe, or one from Europe car, if we're going back that far.

And this is a race, this is a race where in the not too distant past, we've seen breakaways with 10 plus minutes.

It's that kind of race. But we haven't seen a breakaways with 10 plus minutes. It's that kind of race.

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