S12 Ep25: Flèche Wallonne 2024 | Men’s Race

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4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Arrivée, Daniel Friebe and RIchard Abraham review a brutal edition of Flèche Wallonne, ridden in the rain and plummeting temperatures.

After his victory in Amstel Gold at the weekend, could the pre-race favourite Tom Pidcock live up to that billing and complete an historic double? Or would someone else - perhaps one of the many previous winners in the field, like Dylan Teuns or Marc Hirschi - conquer the Mur de Huy?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Achieve by the Cycling Podcast.
0:09.4	This episode is made possible by Bicycle bicycle the leading global marketplace for pre-owned bikes. It is over for another year. You don't have to watch Fleshwell on the Arctic Grace of Belgium the uphill the upside down cheese roll again for another
0:37.0	364 days I'm being facetious this was a good addition of Fleshwellon an unusually good edition of Fleshwell on
0:45.9	Here with me to discuss it and review it
0:50.5	Young Richard Abraham. Richard.
0:53.0	How are you?
0:54.0	How are you?
0:55.0	I'm all right.
0:56.0	How are you? It was a good edition.
0:58.0	It was a good edition. It was a good edition.
0:59.0	We will discuss why we'll tell the listeners why in due course you certainly look warmer and more comfortable
1:04.9	than the riders coming over the line in Fleischwell on today not hard not hard is it
1:11.2	maybe I need maybe I need to go and do a hundred ninety nine kilometers in that and
1:15.2	then you can stop calling me young because it was a bit like one of those
1:19.7	aging filters wasn't it and you see the riders coming across the line. They've gained 25 years, I think, in the course of four and a bit hours, whatever it was.
1:28.0	Yes, very much so, Richard. I was reminded you are too young, being young Richard Abraham, you are too young to remember the 1999 edition of Fleshwellon, which is the one that today's brought to mind certainly for me when I was watching one by
1:46.3	Michael Ebertoli for Mapay. He had just joined Mapay and well he attacked with 80 kilometers to go.
1:54.6	For a long time that day he was with Oscar Kamundsen, the Swiss
1:59.2	rider from Swiss national champion and he dropped Kamenzen, afterin after Kamazin had a lot of difficulty
2:05.5	zipping up his rain jacket.
2:11.1	Everyone else behind them had been already been frozen literally out of contention
2:16.4	comes in the last man standing but he came a cropper because he couldn't his hands were too numb to do up zip. I was reading some reports from that
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