Last year Puck Pieterse was on the podium across the three Ardennes Classics, but there is no pressure to try and live up to that record, with the Fenix-Premier Tech rider recognising that even though her form is at a similar level, the rest of the peloton isn't.
The 23-year-old Dutch rider, who last year took third at Amstel Gold Race, won La Flèche Wallonne and was second at Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes, started off this week's run with tenth in the opening event, saying that while she didn't have her "best legs" at Amstel Gold Race, it was about more than that.
