Last year’s champion Tadej Pogacar will miss Sunday’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege to be with his grieving fiancée after the death of her mother, opening the door for his rivals in the fourth Monument of the season.
World champion Julian Alaphilippe has the opportunity to put some embarrassing near misses behind him when again attempts to win cycling's Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Sunday.