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Puck Pieterse: “The most painful four minutes of the year!”

Puck Pieterse (Fenix - Premier Tech): “This climb is all about being well-positioned at the bottom and going all out. When you start the Mur, you know it’s the most painful four minutes of the year. For sure it doesn’t look pretty, especially the last bit, when you start sprinting!” “I had to follow my own pace, I didn’t want to stand still...

Paula Blasi: “I can't really explain it yet”

Paula Blasi (UAE Team ADQ) reacting to her third-place finish and the final battle on the Mur de Huy: “I can’t really explain it yet, the finish was a bit improvised, I was going with Mavi [Garcia] for the final. I know myself well and I wanted to pace myself. I let Demi [Vollering] go and I was waiting for everyone else to pass me. But by then we were close to the...

Demi Vollering: “My teammates were so strong”

Demi Vollering (FDJ United - Suez): "I’m really happy to win and in an impressive way I guess. I have no idea what happened behind, I never looked back. I only did it just before the finish and I saw Puck [Pieterse] coming. She scared me, for sure: ‘Oh my god, I still need to do a sprint I guess.’ I just really trusted my own pace and didn’t want to have...

Mur magic from Vollering for stunning victory

The 29th edition of La Flèche Wallonne Femmes was won in style by Demi Vollering (FDJ United - Suez) as she attacked 500 m from the finish on the Mur de Huy and held off 2025 winner Puck Pieterse (Fenix - Premier Tech) over the final metres. It was a sweet victory for Vollering - who won the race in 2023 - after she was beaten by Pieterse by two seconds last year and...

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Info with one day to go

The 29th edition of La Flèche Wallonne Femmes will take place on Wednesday and the extended 148.2 km course will feature more climbing in the first 50km, as the riders take on the Côte de Bohissau, Côte de Courrière and Côte de Durnal early in the race. The brutal final sequence culminating on the Mur de Huy is to be tackled twice, with the riders...

From "PFP" to Pieterse, "le Mur" brings them all together!

They are not the kind to shy away from a challenge - even at the foot of the fearsome Mur de Huy. Five former winners of La Flèche Wallonne Femmes are preparing for another assault this Wednesday, at the 29th edition of the race. Crowned last year, Dutch rider Puck Pieterse will defend her title against compatriots Anna van der Breggen (who holds the record with...

Epic Celebrations

This spring, the Ardennes Classics will be marked by the 90th anniversary of La Flèche Wallonne, with celebrations naturally taking place on the Mur de Huy. The climbing fest will also be intense on the roads of La Doyenne (112th edition) and Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes (10th edition). Among the new features,...

A New Queen?

The Mur de Huy and its champions share an ambivalent relationship. One of the most prestigious and painful references, the climb of the Chemin des Chapelles has grown accustomed to tormenting and crowning queens every spring since 1998.

At the end of the 20th century, the inaugural victory of Fabiana Luperini...

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