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Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Paul Seixas will line up together again on Sunday for Liege Bastogne Liege 2026, the Doyenne des classiques and the last monument of the spring.
It is the first time the three have shared a start list since the European Championships on 5 October in Guilherand-Granges, where they finished in that order in the Drôme. That race offered a sharp snapshot of the current hierarchy, and Sunday's showdown arrives with the same three names back in the frame for the Ardennes' final classic of the season.
Pogacar comes in with more recent winning form than either of his rivals, having won in Italy and in Belgium. He also heads toward another major target quickly, with the Tour de Romandie set to begin on Tuesday. That schedule gives Sunday's race extra weight: it is one more chance to settle a spring built around the same select group of contenders before the calendar turns again.
The tension is what the numbers do not quite smooth over. Pogacar has already been beaten once in this stretch, with Wout van Aert denying him a 3-0 sweep in the north of France, a reminder that even the strongest rider in the race can still be checked when the road turns hard and the margins get thin. Liège-Bastogne-Liège sits at the end of that sequence, with the spring's final monument and the last Ardennes classic offering one more stage for the rivalry to land.
For the peloton, Sunday is not just another date on the calendar. It is the last chance this spring to answer a question that has hung over the biggest one-day races: when Pogacar, Evenepoel and Seixas are all on the same line, who gets to finish the season's defining week in front?
