Adam Yates comes close to first Liege-Bastogne-Liege podium

Mitchelton=Scott's Adam Yates is one of the favourites for Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Mitchelton=Scott's Adam Yates is one of the favourites for Liege-Bastogne-Liege (Image credit: Fotoreporter Sirotti)

Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) came extremely close to his first Monument podium at Liege-Bastogne-Liege but just missed out, finishing in fourth place on the Rue d'Avroy just under a minute behind the winner Jakob Fuglsang. Though he came so close, Yates was not disappointed and was instead satisfied that he had managed to better his previous best result of eighth in 2017.

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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.