Liège-Bastogne-Liège Photos April 22nd

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All photos are from Côte de la Redoute during Friday's recon. GreenEdge and race favorites Simon Gerrans and Michael Albasini	BMC with last year's winner, Philippe Gilbert	Lampre-ISD was one man short as Damiano Cunego was in Italy competing in the final stage of Giro del Trentino on Friday where he finished 2nd overall
Race favorite, Thomas Voeckler, dropping his Europcar teammates	Thomas Voeckler	Katusha nearing the top of La Redoute
La Flèche Wallonne winner, Joaquim Rodríguez, (center) with Katusha teammates	Dan Martin (Garmin) on the right	Movistar and cows
2008 L-B-L winner, Alejandro Valvarde. 2008 L-B-L Photos	La Redoute climb perspective. 30 km to go, Côte de la Redoute 2.1 km avg. 8.4%	La Redoute climb perspective. 30 km to go, Côte de la Redoute 2.1 km avg. 8.4%
Côte de la Redoute	Côte de la Redoute
		RadioShack-Nissan with the Schleck brothers
La Redoute climb perspective. 30 km to go, Côte de la Redoute 2.1 km avg. 8.4%	Team Type 1	Liquigas

Stage 2:  Race action  Full Results and Report

257 km of racing over 11 côtes is about to decimate the peloton	The second cote, Cote de Saint Roch at km 116 km	Cote de Saint Roch isn't decisive but photos of this classic scene never get tiring
The early break with Kevin Ista (Accent Jobs - Veranda's Willems), Reiner Honig (Landbouwkrediet-Euphony), Grégory Habeaux (Accent Jobs - Veranda's Willems) and Alessandro Bazzana (Team Type 1 - Sanofi)	Andy Schleck stretching his legs on Cote de Stockeu, but the Schlecks weren't a factor today	RadioShack-Nissan and BMC at the front of the chase
Vasil Kiryienka (Europcar) leading the midrace break over Côte de la Redoute with 30 km to go	The favorites on Côte de la Redoute; BMC leading the chase	Everyone else leaning into Côte de la Redoute (2.1 km, avg 8.4%) with 30 km to go
Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) attacked with 20 km to go and looked to be on his way to a solo win	The chase: Maxim Iglinsky (Astana) and Fleche Wallonne winner, Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha Team) who finished 15th + 1:00	Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) chased down and passed Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) in the final km
Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) celebrates his biggest win to date	Second classic win this year by an Astana rider	Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) comes up short for second + 21s
Vincenzo Nibali attacked with 20 km to go but came up 1 km short of a solo win	Enrico Gasparotto (Astana) beats Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) for third giving Astana two of the podium spots	Your 2012 Liege-Bastogne-Liege winner, Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana)
The 31 year old Kazakh was also the winner of Montepaschi Strade Bianche in 2010	2nd place, Vincenzo Nibali looks understandably disappointed.	Interesting interaction. No words, smile or even eye contact on the podium from Nibali
Your 2012 Liege-Bastogne-Liege podium: 3rd Enrico Gasparotto (Astana) +36s, 1st Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) 6:43:52, 2nd Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) + 21s	Everyone loves a couple of classic winners. Recall that Maxim Iglinskiy's teammate, Enrico Gasparotto, won the Amstel Gold Race last Sunday	Meanwhile, Vincenzo Nibali will replay his solo attack in his dreams... or nightmares