Liège-Bastogne-Liège Photos April 20th

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Friday's recon on Côte de la Redoute. Philippe Gilbert is looking for the Ardennes classics hat-trick on Sunday	Astana with last year's winner Alexandre Vinokourov	Ivan Basso of Liquigas
Frank Schleck	Frank Schleck	Cote de la Redoute is where the action usually heats up with 35 km to go. All the photos from the this recon session are from La Redoute.
Euskatel-Euskadi in the distance among the lush landscape	The men in orange. Euskatel-Euskadi will be led by Sammy Sanchez and Igor Anton	35 km to go: Côte de la Redoute 2.1 km long, avg. 8.4%
Tour of Flanders winner, Nick Nuyens was a late addition to the Saxo-Bank line-up	Sylvain Chavanel will lead QuickStep	Phil...
... the top of La Redoute	RadioShack led by Janez Brajkovic, Haimar Zubeldia

Stage 2:  2011 race photos  Full Results and Report

The first half of L-B-L is quite peaceful terrain-wise	The obligatory photo of Côte de Saint Roch at km 71	Blel Kadri (AG2R), Enrico Gasparotto (Astana), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) and Jérôme Pineau (Quick-Step) were part of a 13 man break after cresting Col du Maquisard at km 195 (55 km to go)
Enrico Gasparotto (Astana) leading Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) over Côte de la Redoute with 35 km to go: Van Avermaet (BMC) was the top finisher from this break, 7th + 0:27.	A fine performance by the youngest rider (23 years-old) in the break, Blel Kadri (AG2R). However, he did slide back to 39th (+ 02' 36") after the peloton caught him.	Break rider Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM), was the KOM winner on the day but he was suffering by the time Côte de la Redoute rolled along. You can see the Schleck brothers quickly making up ground further down the hill.
Côte de la Redoute: Leopard-Trek (Schleck Brothers) and Omega Pharma-Lotto (Philippe Gilbert) leading the chase about 45s back of the break.	Last year's winner, Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana), flatted before the finish	Pegged as pre-race favorites by some, Simon Gerrans (Sky) and Robert Gesink (Rabobank) finished 12th + 0:14 and 30th + 1:40, respectively.
Philippe Gilbert easily came around the Schleck brothers at the finish.	Philippe Gilbert wins the 97th edition of Liège - Bastogne - Liège	Another easy win, his fourth major win this month with time to celebrate...
The sight of the ineffectual Schleck brothers over the last 10 km made it look like they didn't try to gang up on Gilbert	Frank Schleck was 2nd	Previous L-B-L winner, Andy Schleck was 3rd.
Roman Kreuziger (Astana) won the leftovers for 4th ahead of Rigoberto Uran (Sky) and Chris Sorensen (Saxo Bank) + 24s.	The local boy badly wanted La Doyenne, the oldest of the five monuments...	Now he has it. Time to celebrate.
Philippe Gilbert's baby has had more classics podium appearances this past week than 98% of pro riders get their entire career	Your 2011 Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner, Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto)	Your 2011 Liège-Bastogne-Liège podium: Andy Schleck (Leopard-Trek), Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) and Frank Schleck (Leopard-Trek)