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The Selection Process: La Fleche Wallonne

By MikeFranchetti on April 23, 2019May 15, 2019

La Fleche Wallonne is potentially great, potentially boring, and potentially rubbish. The conclusion to last year’s race was brilliant as we saw master (Valverde) and apprentice (Alaphilippe) duke it out on the Mur and a phenomenal underdog victory. The ‘apprentice’ now returns at an ugly short price (8/11) and I find it hard to back

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Fair play to Valverde…

By MikeFranchetti on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018

I spent most of Tuesday night messaging people to tell them why I thought Julian Alaphilippe was going to upset the status quo and defeat Alejandro Valverde on the Mur de Huy. A lot of my points were based on blind faith and I attempted to swat away Valverde’s obvious threat by repeating line like

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The Selection Process: La Fleche Wallonne

Fair play to Valverde…