LA fleche wallone thread

[Blanco]

No Valverde leading the peloton from 500 m to go with a controlled and even pace until the sprint after it flattens.

Yeah, total control baby

 

[search]

Just curious why it didn’t worked out in Brabantse and Amstel with this legs. Was nowhere near the front.
Better chances for Liege maybe.

if you're talking about Williams: he crashed in GP Indurain. So may have just taken him a couple of race days to get back in shape.

 

[tobydawq]

Skjelmose was totally frozen

https://twitter.com/x/status/1780593118733103297

View: https://twitter.com/willoo31/status/1780593118733103297

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So, to nobody's surprise, these guys were faster riding around 40 Ks than I was riding around - actually, I think less-than - 10 Ks.
Because, big secret; I'm slooooooooooooow

Sounds like who ever taught you to ride a bike has played a trick on you.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I can't believe I'm saying this but todays FW could actually impact some guys in Liege (fatigue wise). It wasn't easy peasy until the last km drag race.

 

[tobydawq]

View: https://youtu.be/7iUGVK7BNtY?t=162


look at the weather graph in the video at that timestamp

I think it was snowing then at some point

So the same as today? Apart from the fact that there was wind today.

 

[Samamba]

I can't believe I'm saying this but todays FW could actually impact some guys in Liege (fatigue wise). It wasn't easy peasy until the last km drag race.

Half the top 20 will be sick.
Look at Van Gils, he's literally shaking on the podium.

 

[Squire]

Skjelmose was totally frozen

https://twitter.com/x/status/1780593118733103297

View: https://twitter.com/willoo31/status/1780593118733103297

As a Norwegian, seeing this weather characterized as 'dantesque' makes me quite jealous of what you non-Arctic people see as normal. This was a pretty average day in Norway for about 8 out of the 12 months of the year. No wonder Uno-X had all their guys in the front group, I guess.

 

[Rob5091]

So, no need for the ice tub today then?

 

[AnotherArmChair]

And Guillaume Martin was 10th ...all is as it should be in cycling

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[Blanco]

So, it's Pogacar vs Van Der Poel vs Williams on Sunday...

 

[Red Rick]

2010 Fleche had the best Mur de Huy pacing.

Even Gilbert attacked at like 350 to go when he won it

 

[pastronef]

So, it's Pogacar vs Van Der Poel vs Williams on Sunday...

Williams will feel it for a few days I fear. and even without Fleche, they'd smoke him

 

[Tim Cahill]

Yeah Skjelmose is ****ed, for LBL too, get him to the hospital

 

[DNP-Old]

So, it's Pogacar vs Van Der Poel vs Williams on Sunday...

Not opportune at all.

 

[Netserk]

2010 Fleche had the best Mur de Huy pacing.

Even Gilbert attacked at like 350 to go when he won it

Back from before they introduced Cherave.

 

[RedheadDane]

As a Norwegian, seeing this weather characterized as 'dantesque' makes me quite jealous of what you non-Arctic people see as normal. This was a pretty average day in Norway for about 8 out of the 12 months of the year. No wonder Uno-X had all their guys in the front group, I guess.

Which part of Norway? Bit of a distance between the North and the South...

 

[roundabout]

So the same as today? Apart from the fact that there was wind today.

Obviously you have not seen the 1999 race then.

 

[Red Rick]

San Luca is a proper short, steep climb, not an uphill sprint garage ramp.

Mur de Huy being selective in and of its own is such a myth. Its selective cause the finish is right at the end of the steep section.

Doing reps on it 20km apart does absolutely nothing

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Which part of Norway? Bit of a distance between the North and the South...

I've heard there's about sekse km from North to South 😜

 

[Netserk]

I hope Buitrago or Williams wins. I can't make sense of EF, they only have Carapaz and Healy in the group, yet the latter pulls on the flat?

1st and 5th, very nice!

It would of course have been even better if it had been from the five-man group of Williams, Buitrago, Vauquelin, Van Gils, Carapaz.

 

[tobydawq]

Obviously you have not seen the 1999 race then.

Or you didn't see today's race? It was 3 degrees today too and a strong wind instead of a weak one.

But no, I didn't watch that race, I'm just saying the weather was quite shitty today and based on what you've written, it wasn't worse back then.

Of course it cleared up a bit today so the final 30 kilometres weren't as brutal as the preceding 60.

 

[Red Rick]

Back from before they introduced Cherave.

Sadly it will be back next year

 

[RedheadDane]

I've heard there's about sekse km from North to South 😜

Maybe sekse-thousand.

 

[Phillip O'Garner]

Williams looked about 60 at the end. Brutal stuff.