Rarely do you see such attrition in cycling, but Liege-Bastogne-Liege, which celebrates its 130th birthday on Sunday, has been making and breaking the toughest competitors for years. Hinault was 25.

First run in 1892, Liege-Bastogne-Liege is the most venerable of cycling’s five Monuments, its history betrothing it with the moniker of La Doyenne — roughly translated as the Old Lady.