La Flèche Wallonne is the second in the trio of races known as the Ardennes Classics. At 193.9km, it’s not the longest race but its finale is one of the toughest in pro cycling. The Mur de Huy (1.3km at 10%) provides a brutal ending to this spring classic, with ramps of up to 26% in the final kilometre! Here, the world’s best puncheurs and climbers do battle to be crowned 2023’s King of the Mur.
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28 Comments
UAE EMIRATES is the new USPOSTAL of TOUR de FRANCE 100%
its a rort.
20%?
There are many steeper climbs in plethora roads!
At least he had the good grace to look puffed.
Holy crap, his doping is dialed in with perfection.
Since they don't test for PEDs any longer, Armstrong should consider a return.
HIs doping program is the envy of the peloton.
It really is amazing when you think of it. The slowest rider in this peloton would absolutely smash the fastest riders in your city, it wouldn't even be close. And yet Pogacar is yet another level above those pros, smashing them at will with seemingly endless power. He really is superhuman.
Just imagine if any of these pros turned up to your local TT they would destroy you. Then there's Pog, making them look shit.
No matter what the reasons are, men’s cycling is in the biggest crisis since Armstrong and maybe even since Merckx. The races have become more predictable than I’ve ever seen. It’s like when Benelux dominated women’s cycling for ages.
Woods needs to learn to suck wheel save energy
I’ll say it, something smells fishy about Pog
I'm practically at the point that if I see Pogacar's name on the start list, I wont watch the race! It's all getting like F1, boring and predictable!
"You can see Skjelmose closing in on Pogacar…" Yes, um, as Pog sat up, looked behind and basically coasted across the line.
🥱
I’m going to be honest. If Tadej Pogacar is on the start list, I don’t even watch the highlights anymore. He’s made bike racing boring for me.
Pog has more wins before May than most riders will see in a career.
What a rider, TP! Excellent win. Chapeau!
Pogaçar ❤
Not a fan of pog
Tadej Pogacar again. This is the making of a cycling legend ❤ 🙏 💪
First
What a letdown. Somebody create a test for whatever he’s taking, please.
Or is he really the best of all the dopers, ala LA?
Juiced to the gills
His hair through the helmet helped this time
Terbaik lah Poggy
2x Tour de France winner, Tour of Flanders, Amstel, Fleche and he makes it look a an Easter walk.
WOW, it´s amazing how such a small country like Slowenia seems to have developed a revolutionary way of cycling training………
Great sport, ruined by hyper competitive losers. What kind of sport demands you have the body type and look like an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate while injecting yourself with all sorts of drugs and compounds to be competitive? Pro cycling. And you want us to believe riders just got faster than they were during the drug era of the 90's and are now doing it clean? Pro cycling , exactly like bodybuilding, which used to be about health, degenerated into a perversion with nothing at all to do with anyone's health, physical or mental. Good luck with that.