Gilbert wins Lombardy, scores an almost impossible "double"

Phillipe Gilbert(BEL) of the Silence-Lotto team benefitted from strong team work from Cadel Evans and used a blistering attack on the San Fermo climb to break away with Sammy Sanchez. He then controlled the sprint to win his second classic in a week. The nearly impossible double of Paris Tours and Lombardy in the same season has only been accomplished thrice previous. Given the fact that Paris Tours is often called the sprinters classic and Lombardy a week later is the climbers classic, its not surprising that only Phillipe Thys in 1917, Rik Van Looy in 1959 and Jo de Roo in 1963 were able to score the double. In more recent times not even the greatest of all rounders like Sean Kelly, Eddy Merckx, Francesco Moser and Laurent Jalabert could accomplish what Gilbert has done. Bravo Phillipe, great win, and congrats on finding your place in the history books. Also a big congrats to Cadel Evans, he truly is honoring the rainbow jersey just like he said he would. And to Damiano Cunego... you're starting to sound a little bit whiny, suck it up and leave the poorly chosen post race comments to Cav.