23-04-2025
Pogacar returns to winning ways with Fleche Wallone triumph
Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates celebrates winning the men's race of the 'La Fleche Wallonne', 205,2 km one day cycling race from Ciney to Huy. Jasper Jacobs/Belga/dpa
World champion Tadej Pogacar returned to winning ways on Wednesday when he won the Fleche Wallone classic cycling race for the second time in his career.
Slovenia's Pogacar attacked at the steepest part of the infamous 1.3 klilometres Wall of Huy climb as he won after 205.1km in Belgium from Frenchman Kevin Vauquelin and British twice Olympic mountainbike champion Tom Pidcock.
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The 2024 Giro d'Italia and Tour de France champion Pogacar won the Tour of Flanders this season but also had to settle for second in the Amstel Gold Race and Paris-Roubaix.
Sunday's Amstel Gold Race winner Mattias Skjelmose of Denmark fell some 40 kilometres before the finish and abandoned the race.
Pogacar's first Fleche Wallone win was in 2023, and he will now set his sights on Sunday's Liege-Bastogne-Liege race, the oldest of the five most prestigious cycling Monuments he previously won in 2021 and 2024.
