Eddie
Dunbar has brushed of his crash yesterday at La Flèche Wallonne and will ride Liège-Bastogne-Liège
on Sunday.
The
22-year-old Irish climber is retained in the Team Sky line-up for the third
Ardennes Classic having already ridden the first two.
He
finished Amstel Gold on Sunday and was in the reduced peloton at La Flèche
Wallonne on Wednesday when he crashed with about 35km to go.
However,
he’ll be back in the peloton this Sunday for what is arguably the hardest
one-day race in the world.
Michał
Kwiatkowski David De la Cruz, Michal Golas and Wout Poels are set, like Dunbar,
to ride their third Ardennes classic of the week on Sunday.
There
are two changes to the team that has already ridden Amstel Gold and La Flèche
Wallonne.
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Diego
Rossa and Dylan van Baarle are both out of the line-up while Tao Geoghegan Hart
and Salvatore Puccio are added to the team.
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Geoghegan
Hart (24) has just won two of the four stages at the Tour of the Alps and is 2nd
overall with just tomorrow’s final stage remaining.
Eddie
Dunbar will be on team duties in the 256km race on Sunday. However, aged just
22 years the kind of experience he is banking this week should prove invaluable.
Liège-Bastogne-Liège
is the kind of race that could suit Dunbar in the years ahead. The Irish rider
already has a victory in the U23 Tour of Flanders on his palmares.
And at elite pro level it is events like the Ardennes Classics and the Tour of Lombardy that will suit him better than the cobbled classics, which favour the heavier and more powerful riders.
Eddie Dunbar rode the U23 version of Liège-Bastogne-Liège twice; finishing down the field both times.
Dan Martin will also ride on Sunday, for UAE Team Emirates. And as a former race winner he will look to pull off a result.
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