The doyenne classic

The spring classics are over for another year and thank goodness for ‘the doyenne’ which replenished my obsession with the events following a Milan-San Remo disrupted by snow and two rather processional cobbled classics. Liege-Bastogne-Liege took place yesterday over a slightly altered route – reassuringly changed due to road works – and the racing was excellent.

Excuse me, coming through

Dan Martin came through in the end with a perfectly executed mugging of Joaquim Rodriguez in the final few hundred metres. The normally sedate Sean Kelly was uncontrollably excitable as Dan crossed the line: he said ‘yes!’ with all of his worldly emotion while commentating for Eurosport.