La Flèche Wallonne 2026, 22nd April

[Tim Cahill]

Ultra rare foot of the Mur attack from Costiou!!!

 

[Danskebjerge]

That was a bad initial leadout - sitting 20 meters ahead of the peloton.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Stephen Williams must be fuming watching his team's performance here.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Seixas too early?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Wow nice one, entire climb on the front too, time?

 

[red_flanders]

Seixas impressive.

 

[Netserk]

no experience needed just moar power

 

[iBanesto]

Seixas = Beast

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Seixas beats the Swiss Gilbert

 

[Rou]

Some people said he wasn't explosive.
Made a mockery of the field.
At 19!

 

[canina82]

No one can convince me this young man is not better than Remco already. Biggest threat to Tadej next Sunday and in July.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It helps when Skjelmose, Vauquelin and Martinez are nowhere, but still, to brute force it like that at any age, let alone 19...

 

[Didinho]

Strong Paul!

 

[Danskebjerge]

Seemed as if Seixas had problems 500 m before the line, but he had an extra gear.

 

[Red Rick]

Roadblock FC until 300m to go and a field that wouldn't impress my local snackbar daily clientele and commentators calling it unbelievable that Seixas wins this.

 

[RedheadDane]

Seixas with at least bike length*.





*That's such weird term, BTW, who's bike?

 

[Boehmand]

Skjelmose started the climb in 50th, with no doms in front of him, and ended up 5th

I'd argue the poor positioning of the team cost him, at least, the podium.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Good thing Schmid didn't waste time on the cobbles methink. Controlled and pretty dominant win by Seixas.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Messiah strikes again.

Easy win it looked like. But somehow the last climb felt less exiting than usual, or is my memory making things up. Noone tried anything stupid for example.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Skjelmose far back

Terrible positioning, but I also think he Almeida'ed it a bit too much up the climb as he had plenty of opportunities to gain positions earlier in the climb. Seems like he wasted a podium there.

 

[JosefK]

Uh, not even Pogi did this at 19.

 

[Brullnux]

Even for Fleche standards that was a very dull edition. Front four basically didn't change positions for the final 600m

Seixas is, as we expected, the new alien.

 

[Sciatic]

Skjelmose started the climb in 50th, with no doms in front of him, and ended up 5th

I'd argue the poor positioning of the team cost him, at least, the podium.

Gets the Dan Martin award for most riders passed during the climb

 

[Dazed and Confused]

1	Seixas Paul	Decathlon CMA CGM Team	400	225	4:35:29
2	Schmid Mauro	Team Jayco AlUla	320	150	0:03
3	Tulett Ben	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	260	110	,,
4	Cosnefroy Benoît	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	220	90	,,
5	Skjelmose Mattias	Lidl - Trek	180	80	0:08
6	Baudin Alex	EF Education - EasyPost	140	70	,,
7	Izagirre Ion	Cofidis	120	60	0:10
8	Martinez Lenny	Bahrain - Victorious	100	50	,,
9	Grégoire Romain	Groupama - FDJ United	80	46	,,
10	Kron Andreas	Uno-X Mobility	68	42	,,

 

[Lequack]

Too easy for Seixas. I don't think think Pog and Vinge can beat him at the Tour.