Kwiatkowski has chance to join short list of reigning world champions who have won Flèche
There is some precedent for picking world champion Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx-QuickStep) as a favourite for Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne. Since the race began in 1936, five riders have been first across the finish line of the Ardennes Classic while wearing the rainbow jersey.
Kwiatkowski, who was third at Flèche last year and showed his current form with a win at the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday, would join Ferdi Kübler (1952), Rik van Steenbergen (1958), Eddy Merckx (1972), Claude Criquielion (1985) and Cadel Evans (2010) on the list of world champions who have won the race.
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Barguil will lead balanced Giant-Alpecin roster in Flèche Wallonne
Team Giant-Alpecin will start Flèche-Wallonne with a line-up that includes climbers Warren Barguil and Georg Preidler complemented by a balanced mix of youth and experience.
Joining Preidler and Barguil will be Americans Lawson Craddock and Caleb Fairly, along with Johannes Fröhlinger, Thierry Hupond, Cheng Ji, Fredrik Ludvigsson.
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