"It's a real pity that I didn't win," Michael Boogerd told his fans on the team's website after his fifth-place finish in Sunday's Liege-Bastogne-Liege. "I can live with it; but I am not happy about it. The team worked really well, until after La Redoute I didn't suffer at all. So that was really nice." Juan Antonio Flecha and Alexandr Kolobnev were in the first serious break of the day. On the Côte de Wanne the peloton took it back. And the other Rabobank riders kept Boogerd out off the wind until then.
"I gave a lot when I was in the front, although I was careful and I kept a bit in reserve. In hindsight you can say that you wasted power then, but it could have been that they didn't get back to us. But I did have enough energy left. Because I could follow easily; even more, I answered a few attacks. I knew I was without chances in the sprint against Valverde though."
