Huy (Belgium), 17 April 2024 – While at the men’s level the surprise had won Stephen Williamsthe Walloon Arrow 2024 in feminine sauce rewards a much more well-known name, that of Katarzyna Niewiadomaan athlete who is always present on the circuit and often placed in the main races but in fact has not done since 2019: they complete the podium Demi Vollering and Elisa Longo Borghini.
The news
As already happened two hours earlier to my male colleagues, it is once again the terrible thing Mur de Huy to decide the dispute. The first shot attempt is Longo Borghinibut this time his pedaling turns out to be wooden enough to make a gap: so they pass Volleringslightly recovering, however, a distant relative of the steamroller of spring 2023and above all the elf Niewiadoma, which, being lighter in weight than the entire lot of the best, manages to get by on scary slopes. The same ones she expected so much from Gaia Realini for the same reason: good instead Marta Cavallininth in the race won in 2022. The whole day was scary Ardenneswith the women’s race starting just as a snowstorm, hail and rain broke out: emblematic and dramatic (but with a happy ending immediately announced by the Lidl Trek) the images of the retreat, at the male level, of Mattias Skjelmose, in a clear state of hypothermia despite, as a Dane, in theory being accustomed to certain temperatures. Despite the terrible day, three of the girls leave (Sarah Martin, Elena Hartmann And Julie Van De Velde), but the real race in these cases is at the rear, where the group of the best is gradually being whittled away. All before the supreme judge, the Mur de Huywhich breaks the spell of Niewiadoma almost after 5 years of fasting.
Williams’ statements
From the suffering of Skjelmose and of many others to the serenity of other runners, who instead wallowed in the winter climate: just like Williamswhich curiously had established itself in January, again surprisingly, in the scorching heat of Tour Down Under 2024, thus proving himself to be a runner who loves extreme temperatures. “I enjoyed the race in these conditions: winning here is special, but it wasn’t easy because when I decided to start I found myself facing a block of runners to overtake.” The Briton’s legs were good enough to overcome this other obstacle, in addition to the return with great fanfare of Kevin Vauquelin. “I was happy to resist until the end. I have few words because the emotion is truly great. Winning a cycling race is already special: let alone one Classic like this”. The best of the Italians was Davide Formolo24th, on the day in which, almost simultaneously, al Tour of the Alps 2024where instead they showed off with better profit Giulio Pellizzari, Antonio Tiberi And Filippo Gannathe climatic conditions were similar, if not worse: just think of the minimum of 5th touched for the first time this season in circuit races World Tour And Professional.
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