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Emma Pooley (Cervelo Test Team) added an important victory to her resume, with a win up the gruelling Mur de Huy. Nicole Cooke (GBR) a former winner was second 8 seconds behind Pooley and Emma Johansson (Red Sun Cycling) was on her wheel. Cook overtook Johansson in the closing few metres to the line.

Pooley took off on the steepest section of the Mur de Huy on the second and definitive ascent of the notoriously tough final climb, a little earlier than instructed but which ensured she could celebrate the fourth World Cup win of her career in style.

Sixth in the same event two years ago, the Cervélo Test Team rider was at the head of the pack as they approached the ‘S' bend, the toughest section of the climb. She didn't feel assured of the victory until she crossed the line, the gradient eases in the final 200 metres of the course and she was aware of the threat of the 'power' riders behind her such as Vos and Cooke.

Emma Pooley (Cervelo Test Team) is one of the smallest riders in the peloton and took advantage of that to dance her way up the 19% climb, she also recognised that her team had been responsible for her coming to the Mur, as rested as possible and ready to strike. "I have never got to the end of a race having done so little work," she said later. "I didn't have to do anything at all."

"We had a really good team, really any of them could have won today. I wouldn't have won today if all my other team-mates hadn't been so tired from chasing down the breaks. All I had to do was the last kilometre. Really it was them who won the race!" 

Pooley said she had attacked a little earlier than instructed "because I was really impatient and a bit nervous I might fall off my bike in all the excitement!"