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They are usually in spring. When the first flowers just appear and the snow begins to melt in Europe. It’s the first thing cycling lovers think of when winter leaves and the season begins. The classics. Those one-day races that evoke the epic and show its difficulty in the bodies of athletes, those who finish them and those who don’t.
They reflect the glory of whoever comes first and is crowned in Huy, Bastogne, Limburg or Valkenburg. And the one who arrives last and is crowned with the marks of the mud that remain after the steps on the pavé. Pride is for those who win, arrive or participate. For all.
However, 2020 had a sad spring for reasons that go beyond sports and, of course, the classics did not take place. They were postponed and this year their moment came in the middle of autumn. With the leaves of the trees on the ground and with already several kilometers on the legs for several of the runners.
The Walloon Arrow opens the way to the Ardennes triptych
The triptych of the Ardennes is the set of three classics that are run on these hills in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The first to be run this year will be the Walloon Arrow, located on the UCI calendar for this Wednesday, September 30. It will have 202 kilometers in a route that will go between Herve and Huy that will have four heights, the first outside the last circuit and the other three within this and each one will be passed three times.
The first elevation will be that of Trasenster with 3.1 kilometers at 5.4 percent with a maximum slope of 7.6 percent, the second will already be within the circuit and will be the Cota d’Ereffe of 2.3 kilometers at 5 with a maximum slope of 7.2 percent, the third will be Chemin des Gueuses elevation from 1.6 kilometers to 6.5 and with a maximum of 8.4 and finally the wall of I flew from a kilometer to 11 percent and with a maximum of 12.8.
PCS (Walloon Arrow)
Higuita, Henao, Rigo … Colombians in competition
In the 2020 Walloon Arrow there will be 12 Colombians. Egan Bernal, who was on the Ineos list, will not run. For the British team will be Sebastián Henao and Iván Sosa. For EF Pro Cycling, Daniel Felipe Martínez, Rigoberto Urán and Sergio Higuita will compete.
In the team of the current Tour de France champion, the UAE Emirates, will be Camilo Ardila, Sergio Luis Henao and Cristian Muñoz, the latter were also contesting the Imola World Cup. Juan Diego Alba will go to Movistar, who this year already ran Gran Piemonte and Lombardía, in the Bahrain will do it Santiago Buitrago who has already been in eight competitions with his team in 2020Winner Anacona will run in Arkéa and Rodrigo Contreras in Astana.
The main rivals
Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar is the main rival and favorite to win the competition, Bob Jungels, Marc Hirschi, Tom Dumoulin, Sepp Kuss and Dylan Teuns will also contest the title.
The main absences will be world champion and reigning champion of the event, Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe and the four-time winner of the test, the Spanish Alejandro Valverde.
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