While many riders are recovering after a tough Tour de France, another group of riders are building condition for the second half of the year. Many of those are doing so at the Tour de Wallonie whose hilly parcous is the perfect testing ground for the classics riders. Starting at 14.15 CEST, you can follow Wednesday’s queen stage on CyclingQuotes.com/live.
Only one stage is left in the five-day race but there is no reason to take anything for granted yet. The final stage is the queen stage which includes four passages of the Mur de Thuin (600m, 7.9%) in the finale. The final passage comes just 800m from the finish, leaving very little room for a regrouping to take place.
The stage is tailor-made for puncheurs and it is hard not to regard Philippe Gilbert as the overwhelming favourite. The Belgian won the uphill sprint in stage 3 with a big margin and would love to repeat the feat of his teammate Greg Van Avermaet who won this stage two years ago. However, puncheurs like Bjorn Leukemans, Sergey Lagutin, Fabio Felline, Arthur Vichot, Jelle Vanendert and Matti Breschel will all be on hand to challenge the BMC captain.
The battle for the overall win is all but over. After a successful break on stage 1, Niki Terpstra has a big advantage over his main rivals and it will be hard for them to gain enough time on the Dutchman in tomorrow’s stage. The only rider with a small chance is the big talent Victor Campenaerts who is just 16 seconds behind the Etixx-QuickStep rider in the overall standings.
Starting at 14.15 CEST you can follow the stage here.
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