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What does Paris-Roubaix pavé look like? Take a look at these photos and find out
You’re almost certainly wondering whether I’ve collated a load of photos provided by Strava and published them on some other website, passing it off as some sort of preview for this Sunday’s Hell of the North. Your luck’s in. Look how cobbly it is. Similar rides from the past: Paris-Roubaix has cobbles and the plot…
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Who is Sep Vanmarcke?
I never actually stated it explicitly yesterday, but Sep Vanmarcke finished third in this year’s Tour of Flanders. You wouldn’t have cared anyway because you don’t really know who Sep Vanmarcke is. He’s just another Belgian classics rider with a Van in his name. Well that viewpoint ends now. Sep Vanmarcke now has a thing.…
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Peter Sagan and the possibly fictitious baton-passing pee stop
Ahead of the Tour of Flanders, FDJ manager Marc Madiot came out with the most outstandingly French quote to describe what it must be like to be Peter Sagan. “Sagan has the enormous freedom of not being obliged to win in order to exist,” he said. Until September, Peter Sagan’s record didn’t really match his…
