Arrivée: La Flèche Wallonne (Men)
4/22/202640 min
Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie recap the men’s edition of Flèche Wallonne, the Ardennes classic famous for its steep, uphill finish on the Mur de Huy which was celebrating its 90th birthday this year.
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First 90 secondsDaniel Friebe· Host0:00
[upbeat music] You're listening to Arrivé by The Cycling Podcast.
Lionel Birnie· Host0:08
[singing] It's coming home. [laughs] It's coming home.
Daniel Friebe· Host0:18
Oh, the singing has got to stop.
Lionel Birnie· Host0:20
It's coming.
Daniel Friebe· Host0:21
Just st- [French singing] [laughs] It is coming home, Lionel. Um, it, it actually might well be coming home. History has been made today. We've seen history, um, be made in Belgium. Paul Seixas has become the tallest rider, we think, ever to win Flèche Wallonne. It's a simple race, so we're gonna spoiler it, um, straight off the bat in very simple fashion today. Um, what an extraordinary afternoon. What an extraordinary day. Um, if the race itself wasn't extraordinary, then the, the result, I would suggest to you, is pretty extraordinary.
Lionel Birnie· Host0:55
Yeah, the result is extraordinary. Uh, w- we were telegraphing this yesterday, weren't we? I think, I, I mean, I was very confident that Paul Seixas would win, despite not ever seeing him race the Mur de Huy or the Ardennes Classics or really any, um, y- you know, any race where he has started in this fashion as a favorite, other really than Strade Bianche at the start of the spring where he was second, of course, behind rampaging Tadej Pogačar.