American Megan Guarnier was quietly - and arguably rightly - satisfied after she claimed a third place in the Flèche Wallonne, her highest finish in a World Cup. Although winner Anne Van Der Breggen (Rabo Liv) took a well-raced victory, Guanier, riding for rival Dutch squad Boels Dolmans, still managed to get on the podium despite an untimely mechanical issue, thanks to good team work.
“I had a bit of a problem with my wheel at the point where Anna [Van Der Breggen] got across,“ Guarnier told a small group of reporters close to the finish as she received congratulations for her teammates.
“It kind of happened slowly, but by the time I reacted on it she [Van Der Breggen] was there [up the road]. Then Evie [Evelyn Stevens] drove really hard to make the gap [to the leading break] as small as possible because there were two Rabos [Van der Breggen and Roxanne Knetemann] up there and that was going to stick.”
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“So Evie rode hard out to the bottom of the climb and I just went full gas from the bottom and hoped to catch the podium,” she said.
“The Huy is really hard, I knew I had a job to do there because Evie and the teammates gave it [their own chances] up and it’s really steep. It gets to 250 metres to go and you think like ‘yeah it’s not even done yet’, so you’ve just got to keep pushing.”
“So the glass is half full - with the podium.”
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