The Spaniard rider for that Caisse d’Epargne staff: Alejandro Valverde has won La Flche Wallonne. At the end of the race at Le Mur de Huy, Valverde still left guiding his compatriot in the Euskaltel-Euskadi group Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez who completed 2nd. Karsten Kroon and his teammate Frank Schleck in the Team CSC 파워볼 completed third and fourth. T- Mobiles rider Patrik Sinkewitz finished the run while in the fifth location.
Two riders still left the team early within the biking race: Frdric Finot from Franaise des Jeux and Ag2R’s Jos Luis Arrieta but around 80 Km to go the pack arrived at them. Situations for that race were high-quality nevertheless the challenging wind didnt Permit several of the riders get forward with the team.
The subsequent crucial hole came about when Phonaks Alexandre Moss and Rabobanks Oscar Freire received far from the opposite riders after they ended up at sixty three Km from your conclude However they acquired caught by a gaggle of almost thirty opponents around the penultimate climb with the day: Cte de Ahin with 12 km to go.
The circuit consisted of 202 Km from Charleroi to Huy and at the tip, riders climb the Mur de Huy. The Flche Wallonne is traditionally one of the most open on the spring classics, where as 2005 winner Danilo Di Luca claims: you will need the power to explode in that grueling last ascent to the end.
The group of riders climbs the Huy 3 times in the race, such as the summit complete. Whilst stragglers have enough time to rejoin the leaders following the first two ascents, it is power what it will require at the end and thats what Valverde proved when successful the race.