August 5, 2016
Youth Movement: LBL ’09
If knowledge comes with experience, and experience brings wisdom, then Andy Schleck is destined to become a wise old man. Starting in only his third Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the 23 year-old is clearly ready to carry the future of the sport on his broad shoulders. Schleck certainly paid his respects to La Doyenne, emulating inaugural race winner Leon Houa in 1892 and Eddy Merckx in 1969 by joining the elite “23” club as one of the trio of youngest winners of the oldest classic, and doing it in old-school fashion- solo, and with authority. And while it is clearly an event of the 21st century, the organizer-like Schleck – honors its prestigious status as the oldest bike race by paying homage to the past. Read more
