It's a very rare occasion when we have kind words for a Walloon who desperately needs to see a dermatologist, but Philipe Gilbert's stage win on today's final stage of the ENECO Tour was quite marvelous. We thought Francaise Des Jeux was just a team for plucky losers, but apparently they also employ plucky winners. Gilbert and Lokvist still need to make the final step to the next level, but mark our words, they'll be winning big things in a couple of seasons time. BIG things.

To completely ruin everything we'd previously written about the ENECO Tour being a bit rubbish, the organisers decided to include a hugely demanding route for the final stage. Since it was a direct copy of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège route there's no prizes for originality, but it did result in an exciting final day's racing that never once seemed predictable.

Take the final result, for instance. We hoped that Stefan Schumacher would take the overall lead back from George Hincapie, but we never expected him to do so by going unpunished for knocking Hincapie off his bike and taking the time bonuses for third place on the stage. Of course, the organisers probably just took note of Hincapie's astounding ability to fall off his bike whenever he's in a good position to win something and acted accordingly. Even more dramatic than when he snapped his bars off at Paris-Roubaix? Well yes, since this almost resulted in a fist fight on the finish line.

The ENECO Tour, then. That's it over with. And you know what? It was good. We stand corrected.