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Pooley wins women's Fleche Wallonne
Great Britain's Emma Pooley and Nicole Cooke finished first and second in the Women's Fleche Wallonne in Huy.
Pooley riding for Cervelo's women's team finished 8 seconds ahead of Cooke (Grande-Bretagne) and Sweden's Emma Johansson (Redsun Cycling Team)
Holland's Marianne Vos, who has won the last last three editions of the race, came in sixth.
Pooley picked up the fourth World Cup victory of her career on the final climb of the Mur de Huy clock finishing in a time of 3 hours, 1 minute and 27 seconds.
"I have to say I have never gotten to the end of a race having done so little work," said Pooley. "I have the most awesome team behind me. I didn't have to do anything at all. We had a really good team any of them could have won today. We have really good climbers they did absolutely everything.
13th Flèche Wallonne Feminine: 109 km, Huy.
1 Emma Pooley (GBr) Cervelo 3:01:27, 2 Nicole Cooke (GBr) Grande-Bretagne 0:00:08, 3 Emma Johansson (Swe) Redsun, 4 Grace Verbeke (Bel) Lotto 0:00:12, 5 Evelyn Stevens (USA) HTC-Columbia 0:00:17, 6 Marianne Vos (Ned) Nederland Bloeit 0:00:22, 7 Tatiana Guderzo (Ita) Valdarno, 8 Elena Berlato (Ita) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo-Ghezzi 0:00:27, 9 Judith Arndt (Ger) HTC-Columbia 0:00:40, 10 Eleonora Patuzzo (Ita) Safi-Pasta Zara 0:00:42.
