LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) - Simon Gerrans outpowered favourite Alejandro Valverde of Spain to become Australia's first winner of the Liege-Bastogne-Liege Classic on Sunday.
After the hilly 263-km course had shredded the lead group to two dozen, the Orica-GreenEdge rider tore ahead of Valverde and Poland's Michal Kwiatkowski in the final kilometre to win the centenary edition of Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the last major one-day Classic of the first half of the 2014 season.
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