Pais Vasco, or the Tour of the Basque Country is the number one form indicator for the Ardennes week. How is it possible that I omitted Kim Kirchen from my list of favorites for Fleche Wallone? One needs only to look at the correlation between the Basque tour and the Ardennes classics over the last few years to see the link. I wrote Kirchen off due to his wins in flatter bunch sprints in the stage race as opposed to one of the more climbing centric stages. Lesson learned. I will go on record and say that he will not make the top five at Liege on Sunday. Frank Schleck will win. Or maybe Cunego.
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