Team Euskaltel

The Spanish rider of the Caisse d'Epargne team: Alejandro Valverde won the Fleche Wallonne. At the end of the race for the Wall of Huy, Valverde left behind his fellow team Euskaltel-Euskadi's Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez, who finished second. Karsten Kroon and his teammate Frank Schleck of Team CSC finished third and fourth. rider of the T-Mobile's Patrik Sinkewitz finished the race in fifth place.

Two runners left the group early in the cycle race: Frederic Finot of the French AG2R Games and Jose Luis Arrieta, about 80 km to go the peloton reached them. Conditions for the race were fine but the strong wind did not let some of the riders move forward in the group.

The next major difference occurred at Phonak Alexander Moss and Oscar Freire of Rabobank acquired a certain distance from other riders when they were 63 km away from the end, but they are taken by a group of nearly 30 competitors on the penultimate climb of the day: the Coast Ahin 12 km from the finish.

The circuit consisted of 202 km from Charleroi to Huy and the end, the riders climb the Mur de Huy. La Fla¨che Wallonne is traditionally one of the most open in the spring classics, while 2005 champion Danilo Di Luca wrote: "you need the power to explode in the final exhausting climb to the finish."

The group of riders climbed the three Huy times during the race, including the top finish. Although stragglers have the time to join the leaders after the first two climbs, is the power you need at the end is what Valverde proved when winning the race.