Ineos Grenadiers has named its team for this weekend's Liège-Bastogne-Liège, with Ireland's Eddie Dunbar unfortunately not in the line-up.
While Dunbar's absence diminishes Irish interest in the race this weekend, the 24-year-old has had a busy time of it of late. And with Ineos Grenadiers rotating their riders, Dunbar sits this one out.
The riders the team has named make for a very impressive group; Tom Pidcock, Richard Carapaz, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Michał Gołaś, Michał Kwiatkowski, Luke Rowe and Adam Yates.
With Pidcock having won Brabantse Pijl, been 2nd in Amstel Gold and finished 6th in La Flèche Wallonne, he goes into this Sunday's races as one of the favourites. However, it will be interesting to see how he does when the distance goes over 250km - Sunday's race some 259km.
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Last year Ineos Grenadiers didn't feature in the finale, with its best placed rider, Kwiatkowski, in the chasing group some 14 seconds behind the five leaders.
Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma) was crowned winner when Julian Alaphilippe celebrated too soon, though the Deceuninck-QuickStep was relegated to the back of the breakaway for an irregular sprint. March Hirschi (Sunweb) was 2nd last year and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) was 3rd.
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