Pooley's 'easy' win

Pooley beat another Briton, three-times winner Nicole Cooke, by eight seconds, with Swede Emma Johansson third.

"I have to say I have never got 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. On the first climb at the Mur de Huy we had four girls in the front group.

“I wouldn't have won on the Mur if the riders on the other teams hadn't been so tired from taking down the other girls. Basically it was them who won the race.

"All I had to do was the last kilometre - it was really easy.”

The 2009 Grande Boucle and women's Tour de France champion moved fourth in the World Cup standings with the win, her first triumph of 2010.