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Video round-up: Paris-Roubaix team recces and more

Cobbles, mud and much more ... we're looking forward to Sunday's big race...
by Simon_MacMichael
Fri, Apr 06, 2018 09:58
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Sunday sees what for many – pro cyclists included – is THE one-day race of the season, Paris-Roubaix, and teams have been out this week undertaking their reconnaissance of the course focusing of course on some of the more difficult of the 29 sections of pavé that are the signature feature of the race.

Here’s our round-up of some of the videos and pictures that we have spotted on social media ahead of the 257-kilometre race from Compiegne to Roubaix, starting with this introduction from organisers ASO to the event nicknamed the Queen of the Classics and the Hell of the North.

And here is the official teaser.

Here’s LottoNL-Jumbo taking on the Arenberg

 

And here’s a view on that secteur by a former pro who never rode this race – but did ride over these cobbles from the opposite direction during the 2010 Tour de France.

Will this be Peter Sagan’s year?

Chapeau.

A bit of friendly rivalry between AG2R La Mondiale and Groupama-FDJ during their recce yesterday.

Didi the Devil has employed his design skills on a rather unique bike to tackle the cobbles.

In the build-up to the race, the slightest sight of mud gets the hopes up among a lot of fans that we could see a particularly epic edition. The forecast is that it will be dry through to Sunday, but there’s work to be done by volunteers in clearing the mud that is already on some parts of the course.

ASO’s Thierry Govenou is among those hoping parts of the course will dry out.

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Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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