Overview
- Paul Seixas, who surged on the Mur de Huy Wednesday, became La Flèche Wallonne’s youngest men’s winner at 19.
- The Mur de Huy decides this classic on a brutally steep finish where riders sit in the draft until the last kilometer and strike in the final 500 meters.
- Seixas is set to face Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel, Tom Pidcock at Liège‑Bastogne‑Liège, raising the stakes for the Ardennes finale.
- He arrived in Huy after winning the Itzulia overall with three stage victories, a run that points to sustained form rather than a one‑off result.
- Demi Vollering won the women’s race, Puck Pieterse finished second, and Spain’s Paula Blasi took third days after her Amstel Gold Race win.