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Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck): “This special moment won’t last forever”

What happened today is actually hard to believe. I won Roubaix again alongside my team, that was even stronger that last year. I’m super proud of the boys and super happy to finish it off. I’ve been feeling very good for a long time, and today has been my best day in this Classics season.

I had not really planned to attack that early. I wanted to make the...

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek): “Mathieu was on a different league today”

To be honest, I’m really happy. Mathieu [Van der Poel] was on a different league today. The way he was racing was impressive. When he attacked, we all were riding flat out not to allow him any gap, yet we couldn’t close in. At one point he was still gaining time and the race for second started. In the final, we were still riding all out and then [Jasper] Philipsen...

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck): “You can’t expect to be first and second in Roubaix every year”

What did we have for breakfast? We just had porridge and oat pancakes, nothing special!! But yeah, everyone in team was on his top level today. Maybe I didn’t have my best day, as I did have in Milano-Sanremo, but I was riding on a defensive position and I was able to follow wheels for a long time. That gave me an edge in the closing kilometres. With Mathieu at the front,...

Mathieu Van der Poel, the history-maker

172 riders took the start on the 121st edition of Paris-Roubaix at 11:26, off to ride 259,7 kilometres between Compiègne and the Vélodrome André Pétrieux in Roubaix with 29 cobbled sectors to be covered. 2022 winner Dylan van Baarle (Visma | Lease a Bike) was a last-minute withdrawal, and so were UAE Team Emirates’ Michael Vink and Astana Qazaqstan’s...

INFO WITH ONE DAY TO GO

· The 121st Paris-Roubaix was introduced on Saturday with a team presentation held in Compiègne right before female world champion Lotte Kopecky raised her arms in victory after winning the 4th Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift. Like in the women’s race, most eyes were set on the rainbow jersey as Mathieu Van der Poel is the defending champion and rider to...

Escape from Hell (V/V)

2023 : Alison Jackson Alison Jackson: “Don’t think, just do”

“In the three editions that we’ve seen, Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift has been won in a different way on a different part of the course”, Alison Jackson (EF Education-Cannondale) celebrates as she gets ready to defend her crown in the French Monument. In 2021,...

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PARIS-ROUBAIX / PARIS-ROUBAIX FEMMES AVEC ZWIFT 2024 A WEEK-END IN THE HELL OF THE NORTH

Modification of the approach of the Trouée d'Arenberg

⚠ For safety reasons and following a request from the C.P.A. (Cyclistes Professionnels Associés) association , the Paris-Roubaix organisation is modifying the approach to the Trouée d'Arenberg.

The route will take a chicane just before the entrance to the sector in order to slow the speed at which the riders enter the sector and limit the risk of crashes...

MVDP: A LIVELY CHALLENGE

Twelve different riders have won the last twelve editions of Paris-Roubaix. The Queen of the Classics may be untameable. Still, it's hard not to designate the defending champion as the overwhelming favourite for Sunday's race, which concludes the cobbled classics’ campaign in which the big guns have also suffered injuries on the asphalt. Amid this hecatomb, Mathieu Van...