Impressive pacing "killed" Belgian riders

On the morning after, there was one consensus in the post-race comments of the Belgian press: Team CSC rode a fantastic race, making Liège-Bastogne-Liège too fast for the Belgian riders.

Paolo Bettini saluted the CSC team in HNB. "My hat off for CSC´," Il Grillo said. "It's been years since I last saw a team take control of a race in such a way. The morphology of the race changed, though, when Ivan Basso broke his wheel just before the real finale started. CSC called off the chase for a moment to wait for their team leader and Boogerd and Rodriguez were able to take more time, it became a risky situation that way. It's just a pity that I was by myself several times again today."

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