Liege Bastogne Liege '22: Who's Got the Legs?

As the leading group went up the Cote du Stockeu Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal) pushed the pace up the climb.  He did split the early group apart.  He took a quick look behind to see who was still with him.  Unfortunately, he did drop his own teammate.  While the group of now six men had a sizable gap on the peloton, just over three minutes, they still had another 75 kilometers to race.  

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Paris NIce 2022: Off He Goes

Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) had dropped to the back of the ten man early break to pass his arm warmers to his team car and grab a bottle.  From the back he jumped on his pedals sweeping around everyone on a steep hairpin turn.  Both Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal) tried to go with the violent acceleration of the American on the Arabian team.  They, nor anyone else in the break, could cover the move as they watched his wheels roll away from them.  They should have realized that if he got a gap, they most likely wouldn't see him again.  Perhaps, they knew, but just couldn't do anything about it.

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Paris Nice 2022: Polka Dots Are the Goal

Not only was the panels covered in polka dots at ths summit of the Cote de Toulard the immediate goal for Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) and Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal), the similarly bedeck jersey was the goal of the day for Madouas.  Vanhoucke was doing what he could to try and reduce the points that Madouas garnered at each summit in hopes of keeping his teammate in the King of the Mountains jersey.  However, Madouas had gotten the best of the Belgium rider in red on every climb thus far, including this one.  That fact has insured that the Frenchman will be pulling on the Maillot a Pois at the end of today's stage.  

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LBL Men: Are We There Yet?"

"Are we there yet?" seemed to be what Harm Vanhoucke (Lotto Soudal) was asking Mark Padun (Bahrain-Victorious).  They, along with Mark Donovan (Team DSM), were trying to bridge across to the six man breakaway up the road.  They didn't seem to be making any progress towards those up the road.  Perhaps they were beginning to realize that this effort may not be worth the energy they were putting into it.  Spoiler: they never did get across to the break, but then again, they were only caught a few more minutes ahead of the others by the peloton.

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