So there we have it, the first edition of the Paris-Roubaix weekend…
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Slipping and sliding but never slowing, Lizzie Deignan all but cruised over the muddy cobbles on her way to history…
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Well, it’s been quite the wait. And I’m not just talking about the fact that it’s been two and a half years since there was a Paris-Roubaix…
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Watching Chris Boardman pulling ridiculously long turns during his unsuccessful breakaway attempt at Flèche Wallonne 21 years ago…
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It’s 40 years since a French rider won the Amstel Gold Race and 41 since that country last tasted success in Liège-Bastogne-Liège…
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ClassicsInterview
Waiting for Roubaix: Hayman’s heavenly day in Hell
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithOut of all the Monuments, there is a case to be made that Paris-Roubaix is the grandest…
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Let’s get the bus joke out of the way now: you wait three years for a Mark Cavendish win, and then two come along at once…
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The 2021 cobbled Classics season ended not with bangs, clatters and a few curses, but with a whimper of frustration and the gentle pitter-patter of rain falling on northern France…
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Annemiek van Vleuten is now the second rider in history to have won the Tour of Flanders twice at a ten year interval…
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Classics
There will be no Paris-Roubaix this spring, but there are other ways to steep yourself in the dust, mud and blood of the Hell of the North
Up to April Fool’s Day, Paris-Roubaix could reasonably be called Schrödinger’s Classic, after the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment. ..
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