Cycling: without Tadej Pogacar and Mathieu Van Der Poel, Which Frenchman Can Shine on the Amstel Gold Race?

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In the absence of the two monsters of the classics, but also of Wout van Aert, the French riders have a very nice card to play on Sunday to succeed Bernard Hinault, last tricolor winner in 1981.

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After the toughest races on the cobbled roads of Flanders and northern France, the classics season turns towards the Walloon Ardennes, where the hills offer more opportunities to strong climbers. There, the likes of Van Aert, Van der Poel, Stuyven, and Philipsen disappear—powerful cyclists whose power-to-weight ratio means gravity penalizes them significantly on the climbs. And as a gateway to those Walloon races, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Ba…