Cycling: La Flèche Wallonne

La Flèche Wallonne is the filler in the Ardennes week sandwich, sitting midweek between the Amstel Gold Race and La Doyenne (the oldest) Liège-Bastogne-Liège. It may take place on an unassuming Wednesday afternoon (April 19 in 2023, to be precise), but Flèche Wallonne still has earned itself legendary status as a race which has been home to some of…

Cycling's oldest Monument gets underway on Sunday April 24 with Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and there are a host of big names expected to battle it out for honours over the 257.1km course. The concluding race of the Ardennes Classics season, Liège-Bastogne-Liège is regarded as one of cycling's most difficult one-day races, due to the considerable length…

Enjoying your Worlds Down Under? We are at the halfway point, where they put away the crazy bar extensions and disc wheels and get back to riding bikes on, well, bikes. Credit to some, such as the team from Samoa, who just did the Mixed Relay on regular road bikes, presumably because they respect the simplicity of a good road rig? Or maybe I am…

With Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) the odds-on favourite to claim a fourth successive victory in La Flèche Wallonne this afternoon, race organisers have been urged to change up the parcours for future editions in order to provide opportunities for other riders. The call was made by Lotto-Soudal's Thomas De Gendt, who said that Valverde was once…