Flèche Wallonne

Daniel Moreno drops the favorites for the biggest win of his career

Spanish domestique steps into the spotlight after Katusha gives him the reins in midweek climbers' classic

Irishman comes back from late flat for fourth on the Mur de Huy and turns attention toward Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Carlos Betancur nearly flips the Flèche script on Wednesday with a daring, long-range attack on the Mur de Huy

1. Daniel MORENO FERNANDEZ, Katusha, in 4:52:33 2. Sergio Luis HENAO MONTOYA, Sky, at :03 3. Carlos Alberto BETANCUR GOMEZ, Ag2r La Mondiale, at :03

Spaniard times late attack perfectly to upset the favorites in Huy and win his favorite race on the calendar

Defending champion Joaquim Rodríguez dishes on the secrets to unlocking the Mur de Huy

Final starters for the 2013 Flèche Wallonne classic

Irishman has been knocking on the door in the hilly classics and is ready to walk through to victory

Sky re-tools for Flèche Wallonne, Liège–Bastogne–Liège with stage racing aces

Joaquim Rodríguez crashed hard on his left leg during Sunday's Amstel Gold Race

With steep grades that puzzle the uninitiated, timing is everything to emerge victorious atop the Mur de Huy at La Flèche Wallonne

Cannondale standout will race in the Amgen Tour of California, and later the USA Pro Challenge

Contador had been unsure of his condition, but sport director Philippe Mauduit says he's ready to race

Spanish team has one of the deepest squads entering the trio of races, starting with Sunday's Amstel Gold Race

More than any others, these seven climbs hold the key to glory in the hilly classics set to open Sunday in Maastricht, Netherlands

IAM Cycling rider hit by car in training, suffers open fracture of left index finger

Peter Sagan had all the answers on Wednesday at Brabantse Pijl, leaving many rivals wondering how to test him in the Ardennes

Simon Gerrans' victory in the opening stage at the Basque Country tour buoys his confidence ahead of the spring classics

Four teams make selection for both races, with Cofidis and Europcar swapping starts in the Ardennes

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Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) – fresh off his decisive win at La Flèche Wallone – hopes to claim his maiden win at Liège

Swiss rider has surprised in 2012 and will have some freedom at Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday

Dutch star won at Sarthe as comeback includes Giro

Classics-dreaming Spaniard lands the win he's dreamt about in Huy

Canadian escapes late in midweek classic with reeling Norwegian

The 2012 Flèche Wallonne Femmes, through the lens of Casey B. Gibson

Gilbert has gone from 12th to sixth to third in the last week en route to Liège-Bastogne-Liège

American on the mend after knee tendon injury, cold hampered him at Pais Vasco, Amstel Gold

Full results for the 2012 Flèche Wallonne classic

Spaniard calls first classics win his best day

Images from the start of the 2012 Flèche Wallonne in Charleroi, Belgium

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After strong performance at Amstel Gold, Garmin feeling well-suited for higher finish at two remaining Ardennes races

After a surprising Amstel Gold Race, picking a clear favorite for a rainy, windy Flèche Wallonne is as difficult as the Mur de Huy is steep

Italian U23 Flanders champ has already made starts in two major classics in his neo-pro season

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans will not participate in Flèche-Wallonne on Wednesday or Liège–Bastogne–Liège on Sunday

It's a matter of when, not if, the young Slovak earns his first classics win

Andrew Hood runs down the chances of the four Spanish favorites for the Ardennes classics

Virus wiped out the early season for 2009 Liège winner

Previous winners of La Flèche Wallonne

Preliminary startlist for the 2012 Flèche Wallonne

King of the Classics gives his point of view on today's riders, picks winners through Liège

Team Type 1-Sanofi landed prestigious wild-card invitations to race in the Ardennes classics

WALSHOUTEM, Belgium (VN) – Nearly lost in the fever of Philippe Gilbert’s triumph for Omega Pharma-Lotto at La Flèche Wallonne Wednesday was Alexander Vinokourov’s best-ever result in the mid-week classic. Astana’s defending champion of Liége-Bastogne-Liége ground out a fourth-place result atop the Mur de Huy and said afterward that the ride gave him much confidence ahead of Sunday’s Ardennes finale.

HUY, Belgium (VN) ─ Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Cervélo) is hoping to cap his spring campaign with a run for the podium at Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday.

Brian Holcombe talks to HTC-Highroad's Evelyn Stevens about her long solo attack at Wednesday's Fleche Wallonne

Brian Holcombe chats with Liquigas-Cannondale's Tim Duggan about the Ardennes and Mur de Huy

HTC-Highroad's Tejay Van Garderen talks with Brian Holcombe about his first Fleche Wallonne and his pressure-free Ardennes program

HUY, Belgium (VN) — Philippe Gilbert will wake up Thursday morning as he did Monday, focused on recovering from a tough, winning effort in the hills near his hometown of Verviers, Belgium. So says the winner of all three high profile hilly classics contested this spring.

Full results for the 2011 Flèche Wallonne classic

HUY, Belgium (VN) – The Walloon fans of his home region carried Philippe Gilbert up the über-steep Mur de Huy Wednesday as he ran away with his third win in a row. The Omega Pharma-Lotto rider came onto the steepest section of the Mur at the front of the peloton and burst away from his rivals 400 meters from the line at La Flèche Wallonne.

La Flèche Wallonne Féminine

• 1. Marianne Vos (Nl), Nederland Bloeit, 109.5km in 2:58:27
• 2. Emma Johansson (S), Hitec Products-Uck, at 0:03
• 3. Judith Arndt (G), HTC Highroad Women, at 0:06
• 4. Elena Berlato (I), Top Girls Fassa Bortolo, at 0:15
• 5. Nicole Cooke (GB), SC Mcipollini Giambenini, at 0:15

HUY, Belgium (VN) - Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloueit) was the strongest on the Mur de Huy and a tough 100-kilometer circuit Wednesday. The Dutch master of most trades was triumphant at La Flèche Wallonne Feminine, finishing a handful of seconds ahead of Emma Johansson.

WALSHOUTEM, Belgium (VN) – Leopard-Trek has been denied in all but one of the spring classics this year. While their top focus is on Sunday’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Andy and Fränk Schleck on Tuesday reaffirmed their plans to be aggressive in the finale at La Flèche Wallonne on Wednesday.

FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (VN) – After a tough first year at Team Sky, it looks like Simon Gerrans is back on top. The 30-year-old Australian finished third Sunday in the Amstel Gold Race, his first classic of the spring.

FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (VN) — The steep ramps of the Mur de Huy await the peloton Wednesday at La Flèche Wallonne.

Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) says he is still feeling the effects of a spring cold ahead of Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne in what will be his only spring classic of the season.

Ivan Basso, who was forced to abandon the Tour of the Basque Country earlier this month with a cold, is back in the saddle for the season’s penultimate spring classic at Flèche Wallonne on Sunday.

Last year, Cadel Evans roared up the Mur de Huy to win Flèche Wallone while wearing the rainbow jersey, giving BMC one of its most important victories in team history.

Craig Lewis and Tejay Van Garderen will play key roles for Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne for HTC-Highroad.

Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) took what he could out of the Vuelta a Castilla y León despite missing a chance to win for the fourth time in five years.

A quadricep injury will keep Cadel Evans from starting Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, but the former world champion said his recovery is going well and he remains on track to focus on the Tour de France, BMC reported on Thursday.

• 1936 Philemon Demeersman (BEL)
• 1937 Adolphe Braeckeveldt (BEL)
• 1938 Émile Masson Jr. (BEL)
• 1939 Edmond Delathouwer (BEL)
• 1940 No race

2010- Emma Pooley (GBR) 2009- Marianne Vos (NED) 2008- Marianne Vos (NED) 2007- Marianne Vos (NED) 2006- Nicole Cooke (GBR)

Britain's Chris Froome is among a trio of riders targeted by an environmental group ─ for throwing empty water bottles into the Belgian countryside during the recent edition of Flèche-Wallonne.

Alberto Contador is undeniably the reigning king of the grand tours, but one day he wants to come to the Ardennes and add one of the major classics to his palmares.

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John Wilcockson re-caps Flèche Wallonne and compares its victor to the those on the podium at the concurrent Giro del Trentino.

Cervelo TestTeam's Emma Pooley won the Fléche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium Wednesday, finishing with an eight-second gap ahead of three-time winner Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) and Emma Johansson (Redsun Cycling Team).

Results from the 2010 Flèche Wallonne classic

2010 Women's Fleche Wallone results

BMC's Cadel Evans wins 2010 Flèche Wallonne

Start List: Flèche Wallonne, 2010