Just a quick follow up to yesterday’s post when I questioned Liquigas’s tactics — well, today they got it perfectly right. In the closing kilometers there was a small group off the front with 2 LG riders in it, meaning that the rest of the team didn’t have to chase to bring it back. That group was caught with ~2k to go and then the rest of the team launched the train with 3 guys left to get Bennati to the sprint. Petacchi was second, Greipel 3rd, Farrar 4th — of course there was a crash @ ~3k to go that seems to have taken out most of Petacchi’s train and I’m not sure who else (Boonen was no where as far as I could see), but still, a perfectly executed lead out is a thing of beauty — the LG riders were celebrating with 50m still to go. Go have a look for yourself at www.universalsports.com/cycling