Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck said he won’t have a fixation on Belgian rival Philippe Gilbert when Liege-Bastogne-Liege brings the spring classics season to an end today.

Gilbert lines up for the 255.5 km race with a rare chance of securing a Grand Slam of victories in the tough ‘Ardennes Classics’ after his Fleche Wallonne win Wednesday followed victory at the Amstel Gold race a week ago.

The Ardennes triple has been achieved only once before, by Italian Davide Rebellin, in 2004.

But while Gilbert starts as the favourite, 2009 race champion Schleck said he will be taking other contenders just as seriously.

Alexandre Vinokourov took advantage of the favourites marking each other to ride away from the pack with Russian Alexander Kolobnev inside the last 15 km to go on and claim his second career victory on the race last year.

Schleck said it would be a mistake to simply focus on Gilbert.

“I don’t think we should just look at Gilbert. We have to keep our eyes open. There are many guys who can win the race,” said the Luxemburger.

“Who counted Vino last year? We had a press conference before Liege and nobody mentioned Vino.

“There are many more (rivals). There’s (Robert) Gesink, Vino, Kolobnev, (Joaquin) Rodriguez, (Samuel) Sanchez. I believe there are 10 guys and I hope I didn’t forget anyone.”