Pogacar takes up his routine with another overwhelming triumph on the wall of Huy

We win Tadej Pogacar (26 years) It is usual, and that speaks of the level of a historical corridor. Moreover, the news is when the Slovenian does not get the victory, as happened last Sunday at the Amstel Gold race that, after being caught by Evenepoel and Skjelmose, The latter snatched the victory almost on the line (this Wednesday he ran out of options for a fall). Therefore, in the Arrow-Valona and its spectacular Huy wall he always decides, Tadej had the ‘need’ to put things back in his place. And what if he did. In which it is usually the most spectacular kilometer of the season, The UAE made the last 500 meters alone. A superiority rarely seen in the recent era in this explosive outcome and its second conquest in the Belgian test after 2023.

And, in such a spectacular cycling that is being lived in recent years after the pandemic, the arrow-valone It was the last redoubt of those races that are decided in the final meters. Far attacks, exhibitions … It was a year to check if this test, in which no one expires escaped since 2003 (Astarloa), You could also witness a distant exhibition for the quality of the participants: Pogacar himself, Evenepoel … In the end, the outcome was the usual, and that is that Tadej also took note of the Amstel. The victory is the same and in Huy, knowing so superior, he preferred to ensure in one day, for the second consecutive year, very adverse in terms of weather, with disheveled faces and shivering for the cold. On the podium they accompanied the Slovenian the Frenchman Vauquelin, 2nd as in 2024, and Pidcock, the latter after a great end.

The second race menu from the triptych of the Ardenas (Amstel and Lieja-Bastraña-Lieja, on Sunday, they complete it), It was similar to the usual, overcoming the 200 km barrier, up to three steps (including the end) by the Huy wall and a total of eleven dimensions. Soon a leak was formed with eight members, without apparent danger for favorites. The last three survivors were, casually, Norwegians: Dversnes, Leknssund and Foss. Controlled at all times, the platoon caught them when a dozen kilometers were missing, With the UAE (Pogachar) and Soudal (Evenepoel) carrying the prominence throughout the day in the main group, and more with the absence of the aforementioned Skjelmose, which discarded, in part, the Lidl-Trek, leaving in Nys its only trick.

In the level prior to Huy, Cherave, the favorites were already seen in the lead, and even 5 km from the conclusion, in a descending and technical field, POgacar got in the lead … what quickly forced Evenepoel to go to his wheel. Without further movement, one of the appointments of the season arrived: 1.3 km with points of 19% of unevenness. A pared. The Christen Swiss, Tadej’s partner, put the rhythm within the tense calm. It was a movement of Healy who unleashed the final arreón of Pogacar, leaving the left curve, one of the toughest points of the climb, with an already insurmountable distance and all this without getting out of the saddle. Plácido road to the goal with even some look back to see what was happening. Remco, from more to less, ended ninth while the best Spanish was Raúl García leg (31st). On Sunday, Lieja-Bastña-Lieja, fourth monument of the season and with Tadej as a favorite. As almost always.

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