Paris Roubaix '26: Any Way You Can

Sector 11 is one of the 5-star sectors of pave. Five stars are the hardest sections. Many take the risk of riding in the dirt and gravel on the side of the cobbles.  In this chase Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) had misjudged a corner trying to go up inside of Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike).  The move ended up with him in the grass just missing some fans who were fortunately paying attention to the race.  His error gave Van Aert a chance to open a bit of a gap, but once righted, Pogacar regained the Belgium's wheel.  The two were now increasing their advantage over the rest of the field.  At this point they had twenty-five seconds over those behind with just another 51 kilometers left to race.

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Paris Roubaix '22: Crossing on His Own

The way Dylan Van Baarle (Ineos-Grenadiers) left the peloton and set out to catch the leaders implied that he was going to be a force to reckon with in the remaining 48 kilometers.  He was now just 41 seconds behind as he turned onto the Mons En Prevele pave section.  Ahead it can be supposed that those ahead would welcome some fresher legs to help them stay away from the others.

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Paris Roubaix: Hoping to Get There Alone

 

Gianni Moscon (Ineos-Grenadiers) was hoping he would be able to follow in the pedal strokes of Lizzie Deignan who rode solo to the finish on the velodrome of Roubaix.  Just as she had, he had been off the front of the race since just before the first section of cobblestones, but unlike the first Queen of Roubaix, he had company up until now.  Using the pave section Mons en Pevele, he rode off the front putting 30 seconds into the chasers rather quickly.  With 47 kilometers to race, he was making it hard for the others at the very least.  It was a perfect moment of syncopation that he had the same gap on his chasers as she did at the same moment in his and her races.  Unfortunately for the Italian on the British team, his fortunes were not quite they were for the British riders on the American team.

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Paris Roubaix Femmes: Not the Best Debut for the Rainbow

 

Last week Elisa Balsamo (Valcar-Travel & Service) was winning the UCI Road World Championship, today, bedecked in her brand new rainbow jersey she was sliding through the mud in the Hell of the North.  Balsamo, was in the middle of the group chasing the lone leader when she fishtailed in the mud of Section 11 of pave, the Mons en Pevele.  She had braked a little too hard to avoid another rider going down just ahead of her.  With all of the wet mud on the rough cobblestones, it was to hard for her to keep her bike upright.  It was that much worse as she slid to a stop in a soggy mud puddle.  It could have been much worse, the road surface is very, very painful fall onto at speed.  She wasn’t hurt, but lost the wheels of the chase group and I never saw her on camera again.

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