LA fleche wallone thread

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It's la fleche wallone on Wednesday and please discuss your favorites and thoughts for the race. Thank. Roglic the coward he skip the race a shame, give your thoughts as to who will win @devil elbow can you add profiles please .
I'll be the author of the thread but I'll get devil's elbow to do the grinding work.
I suppose if you had a secretary, you'd get her to write a book and put your name on it.
 
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@devil elbow can you add profiles please .
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Why did they make this race (even) easier?

Gonna be a big group going to last Mur, positioning will be even harder and more important. A mass crash in the last descent towards the Mur taking out some of the few favorites left would be typical for this season.
 
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Why did they make this race (even) easier?

Gonna be a big group going to last Mur, positioning will be even harder and more important. A mass crash in the last descent towards the Mur taking out some of the few favorites left would be typical for this season.

Because Netserk has been pleading them to remove the Cherave climb for whatever reason.
 
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Also, yes, that really is the resolution of the map on the official site. It is the year of our Lord 2024 and the biggest organiser in sport can’t get the basics right when it comes to anything digital. This sport sometimes…
You can copy the map from the pdf:

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I don't know the names of any of those climbs, but the route on the 2005-2008 editions had some climbs that passed through some very nice landscapes. The end result will be the same so please return to that route instead of this Huy circuit.
 
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After today, no idea who will win this. I don't think anybody looked all that great. I guess Hirschi has won it before but even though he was good today he is still miles away from looking as great as he did back then.
 
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Teuns has also won before. And with the level he showed in De Ronde, maybe he could be a Factor.
Before today I thought him and Skjelmose were really dangerous but both of them tried to attack on the final Cauberg and looked extremely unimpressive.
 
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Before today I thought him and Skjelmose were really dangerous but both of them tried to attack on the final Cauberg and looked extremely unimpressive.
Amstel is way too specific of a race to judge riders by for Fleche and Liege.
 
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This Amstel doesn't say anything about Wednesday or next Sunday. Way to specific race that was super tactical too.

And Fleche is (even more than previous years) just a bunch sprint on the Mur, super specific effort too.

We might get a rainy edition tho.
 
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Amstel is way too specific of a race to judge riders by for Fleche and Liege.
That makes sense, fatigue at the end of the race is not as much (or hardly a factor at all in some past editions) of a factor in Flèche.
 
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While Slovenian top favourites are missing my prediction is Skjelmose. He has the punch to win on the Mur.

EDIT: I forgot about Hirschi, who looked good today. Should be in contention too.