It’s impressive and words are running out because coming second in the Flecha Wallona, fighting for victory up to the final 25 meters and doing it just five days before turn 42 It is a milestone, because it is a milestone, which is only within the reach of a legendary cyclist named Alejandro Valverde, a legend that this year, yes, this year it seems that it will be the last, the definitive one, the final pedaling for a great career as a runner .
Alexander Valverde was second in the Walloon Arrow of his farewell. He has been the only one who has fought for victory with the Belgian Dylan Teuns, a Flemish triumphant in the land of the Walloons. And he has done it while those who were perhaps more favorites than him, read the names of Julian Alaphilippe and Tadej Pogacar, burst under the tyranny of Huy’s wall, where the percentages reach 25%, where you have to squirm and there where everyone met with history to begin to catch up, never to surpass, the Murcian cyclist and his five wins in the classic that precedes the Liège-Bastogne-Liège that takes place this Sunday, and where once again, the last one, which had to come some time, Valverde will be among the favorites again.
? A beau sprint between ??@alexvalverde and ??@dylan_teuns !
⏪ Relive the last kilometer of the #FlecheWallonne 2022.? It was a tough sprint between ??@alexvalverde and ??@dylan_teuns !
⏪Relive the last kilometer of the 2022 #FlecheWallonne. pic.twitter.com/GG5Zkjg5H3— La Flèche Wallonne (@flechewallonne) April 20, 2022
The legend is from Murcia, the land of the cyclist who runs with the history associated with his pedals, the only one, which they called ‘The Undefeated’when he was a kid that no one beat in youth… and that was so many years ago, that he wasn’t even born Pogacar and runners like alaphilippe They moved by tricycle and most of those who accompanied him on the ascent this Wednesday doubtless remained barely standing, beginning to walk, with diapers on their backs.
And he is still there, showing that this year has not been left over; that he does not win, it does not matter, because his are usually the best positions in the group Movistar (second in the men’s Arrow and seconds with Annemiek van Vleuten after the Italian Marta Cavalli in the women’s event) and the points so that the Telefónica team does not appear too low in the World Tour classification, in the year in which they have won descents, as it happens in all the leagues where the ball circulates in between.
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With Enrique More and with Charles Verona Movistar believed in the victory of Valverde. And they were the ones who opened the ground and who controlled the Arrow in the final ascent of the three that took place at huy wall. Without rushing, keeping an eye on his rivals, the 2018 world champion controlled the race, he made one last effort in Huy, he did what he had always done in his five victories and in the end he had to settle for being second by third time in his sports career.
There in the final curve he saw himself in front and with only Teuns as the only opponent to his victory. And it even seemed that his usual change of pace was coming, when everyone submitted to his power. But Teuns he held on and the Bahraini cyclist raised his arms in front of a legend.