Demi Vollering and Paul Seixas are among our favourites for the 2026 La Flèche Wallonne (Image credit: Getty Images)

With the cobbled Classics season behind us, the men's and women's pelotons have decamped to the hills of the Ardennes to take on the Ardennes triple – the recent Amstel Gold Race in the Dutch province of Limburg, and the Walloon double of La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège .

Each race has a different character, and very different parcours, though all feature a host of hills suited to the climbers and puncheurs of the peloton.

La Flèche Wallonne, based around the town of Huy, features one of the most fearsome hills on the calendar in the form of the Mur de Huy .…