2018 Flèche Wallonne
Male Team 18 Apr

Flèche Wallonne

198.5 Kilometers
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Participants list

  1. Alejandro Valverde
  2. Andrey Amador
  3. Winner Anacona
  4. Carlos Betancur
  5. Imanol Erviti
  6. Mikel Landa
  7. José Joaquín Rojas
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TV

The race will be shown live on Eurosport 1, starting at 2.30pm CEST.
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Timetable

The neutral start from Seraing will be given at 11.15am; the finish in Huy is expected between 4.08 and 4.38pm CEST.
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Social Media

There are three unmissable, obvious references to keep up with this race: the official account, @FlecheWallonne; the hashtag #FlecheWallonne; and ASO's Radio Tour live tweets. You can add, as usual, our handle to those examples, with @Movistar_Team following Alejandro and the Blues throughout the day.
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Score

Alejandro Valverde is the 'king' of the Flèche Wallonne, with a record-setting five wins in 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Route

Seraing - Muro de Huy (198.5km)
18 April
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Analysis

Alejandro Valverde will be surely looking forward to a race he’s dominated lately, the Spanish superstar from the Movistar Team having won the last four editions of the Flèche Wallonne. There will be no big changes -the ones happening, though, will bring the event closer to her ‘sister’, Liège-Bastogne-Liège- on a 2018 route which maintains the Mur de Huy as center of all attentions -also in its women’s event–.

La Vecquée (65km) and La Redoute (82km) are new to this year’s course from Seraing, anticipating -together with the climbs of Mont (100km) and Amay (126km)- the first ascent to Huy, completed with 58km from the finish line.

There, a circuit will start with two passages through the ‘côtes’ of Ereffe (2km, 5%) and, most importantly, Cherave (1,300m, 8.1%), a very long straight whose position inside the final 6km offers the most courageous ones a long shot before the inevitable sprint finish through the climb also known as Chemin des Chapelles (1.3km, 9,6%).