A handy diversion tactic? Again he’s right but he’s done this kind of polemic to get people to talk about something else than his team before. Is he right? Yes it happens too often but let us note his intervention came just after the first time Quick Step hadn’t placed a rider on the podium in a spring classic. Valverde running out of team mates to chase /5dGK8GWkk9Įarlier this week Patrick Lefevere blasted race motorbikes for being too close to the racers and so their slipstreams were interfering with the race. Some riders not happy with the TV moto being so close to help Movistar chase. Nibali was enlivening another race but presumably on duty for the Izagirre brothers and Enrico Gasparotto, a golden lure while Haig looked strong and Kangert and Schachmann could both play the team card: they were policing the move and outsiders. It was working and if finally the proverbial elastic snapped it seemed more to fray under the high speed racing rather than decisively break and Vincenzo Nibali, Jack Haig, Tanel Kangert and Max Schachmann got away and caught up with Roux and Benedetti. A group of eight riders went clear with two riders from the World Tour, Anthony Roux (Groupama-FDJ) and Cesare Benedetti (Bora-Hansgrohe) and their higher level would show when several hours later the move was caught by a counter move and only they could latch on.Īpproaching the second time up the Mur de Huy several teams were firing riders up the road, presumably in a bid to sap Movistar. It was a warm day, spring had sprung with the woodland turning green. It was a good edition of a race that had become cycling’s equivalent of a repeat edition. The Flèche has a new winner in Julian Alaphilippe although almost an old hand given he’s been on the podium here twice before. Julian Alaphilippe surges past Jelle Vanendert with Alejandro Valverde several metres behind, in the picture but for once out of contention.
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