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2013 Ardennes Classics
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April 23, 2013
Interviews! Elisa Longo Borghini & Ash Moolman
Interviews with Elisa Longo Borghini of Hitec Products UCK and Ashleigh Moolman of Lotto Belisol, just after they came second and third at the Flèche Wallonne World Cup.
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April 21, 2013
Flèche Wallonne from the Hitec team car
Read about what's it like seeing one of the biggest races on the women's calendar from a team car, with a gallery of photos
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April 19, 2013
Adventures with Hitec at Flèche Wallonne - part 1
"Backstage" at the 2013 Flèche Wallonne Femmes with team Hitec Products UCK
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April 19, 2013
La Doyenne - A Play In Three Acts
The fourth monument of the season, and the oldest of them all, traces a circuitous route through the Belgian Ardennes from Liège to Bastogne and back to the outskirts of Liège. This year, though, a course alteration may hurt the pure climbers.
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April 18, 2013
Thru Patrick Verhoest's Lens: Amstel Gold Race!
I'm on vacation at the moment, so pardon the slow pace of my efforts. Here's an awesome collection of pictures to take your mind off the subject.
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April 17, 2013
Plot Twists on the Mur de Huy
Daniel Moreno won La Flèche Wallonne by following the standard formula of waiting, waiting, and waiting before starting his final attack. But this year, the standard formula was almost upturned by Carlos Betancur's early attack.
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April 17, 2013
Vos takes her fifth Flèche Wallonne
There was no denying Marianne Vos on the Mur de Huy this year. The Rabobank rider once again proved the strongest as a reduced peloton reached Huy together. She managed to outsprint Elisa Longo Borghini and Lotto's Ashleigh Moolman with relative ease to take her fifth win.
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April 16, 2013
Flèche Wallone Preview: 204km of Waiting, Then Huy
Despite organizers attempts to shake up the routine action in La Flèche Wallone by re-arranging the final climbs in 2012, the race is still largely a procession to the Mur de Huy. Not that I'm complaining.
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April 16, 2013
Flèche Forecast
Round four of the women's World Cup, the Flèche Wallonne is here. Can anyone beat Vos this time around?
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April 16, 2013
Amstel: Do Riders or the Course Make the Race?
Major changes to the Amstel Gold Race route coincided with the most exciting version of the race we have seen in years. Are they linked, or did outsiders simply take the race into their own hands?
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April 14, 2013
Amstel Gold Results: Kreuziger Stays Away
Early aggression by Blanco, Saxo-Tinkoff, and ORICA-GreenEDGE put a breakaway group up the road in the final 35 kilometers, breaking up the racing in Amstel Gold earlier than in the past several years. Roman Kreuziger survived the chase to win.
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April 12, 2013
Amstel Gold Preview: How Do The Favorites Win?
The favorites for Amstel Gold fit into three distinct groups with three equally distinctive ways to win the race. Here's how they can win - and why they might not.
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April 11, 2013
Amstel Gold: Breakaway or Sprint Finish?
Racing in Amstel Gold seems formulaic these days - a few failed breakaways and a sprint atop the Cauberg. But is the race as simple as that? What chance do long range breakaways actually have, and how do changes to the course affect them?
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April 10, 2013
Sagan Wins Brabantse Pijl
The Ardennes season opened with a scintillating version of Brabantse Pijl today, won by Peter Sagan in a two-up sprint with Philippe Gilbert. Signs point towards an exciting next week and a half of racing.
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April 9, 2013
From Hellingen to Côtes: The Ardennes are Here
It is time for the cobbled bergs to give way to the longer, paved côtes of southern Belgium and the Ardennes classics. Explosive climbing and aggressive racing will be on tap over the next two weeks of racing. Here is a preview of what is to come.