Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates): “The Mur de Huy felt very long”

April 23 ^rd 2025 - 17:23

“It really is a great feeling to win again here in La Flèche Wallonne, in this tough final. The Mur de Huy is a beautiful climb, but as a cyclist you don’t like it that much. The weather was not great, either. It was a really tough race and pulling off a win today means a lot to me, because my teammates worked very hard and it’s great to deliver a victory for them.”

“We raced well together as a team, always sticking to the plan. Both Soudal-Quick Step and us rode pretty hard early on, and that made the race even more tiring than usual. The size of the peloton at the foot of the final climb proves this. As for the Mur de Huy, I had a really good lead-out to the final few hundred meters with Brandon [McNulty] and Jan [Christen]. When I accelerated, I quickly realized nobody was following my wheel. Still, the climb felt very long to me. The Mur de Huy is one of the climbs that feel the longest in professional cycling.”

“I don’t think today’s weather conditions will have any influence on Sunday’s race, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Three days should be enough to recover from today’s effort. My teammates showed today they have super good legs, and we are going to enter a similar team on Sunday hoping to do as good as we did today.”