Looks like we are gonna have a wet one…forecast for Sat is Showers (73% chacne) and Sunday is Light Rain (88%).
Will be fascinating to see how a fall edition differs from April. Clearly WVA and MVP will be the heavy favorites, but the strength of Deceunick means they’ll be in the mix with a number of riders. Stybar looked really good last Sunday, so if you want a dark horse, he could be the one.
I think it has been 18 years since the last wet Roubaix…bring on the rain!!!
Oh nice, thanks! Was set to ask watching availability. TdF and Vuelta on Peacock was good, but disappointed when it came to Tokyo Olympics at least on cycling coverage.
Did you see they had to weed the cobbles!? Crazy looking at the end of a European summer. They look slick as anything after though and if the rain eventuates it could be a messy race.
Women’s edition Saturday, here’s the ones to watch article. Will be riding Sunday so probably only watch the highlights of the mens, but will try to watch most of the Saturday race!
Really looking forward to this, beeing a Dane.
I think Mads Pedersen really wants this, but we also have Asgreen ( who actually was sick at the worlds ) and Valgren i believe can do something to.
Dark horse dane is Søren Kragh Andersen, but have missed the form this year.
Other than the obvius MVDP and WVA i think also the rest of the quickstep squad is build for this race, and i HOPE sagan can be in the mix too.
Cant wait - btw. watch “A sunday in hell” on youtube if you want to get in the mood
Soooo bad that the coverage of the 1st women’s Paris Roubaix started after the decisive move. The coverage just became a question of whether or not the chasers would reel-in Deignan or not. Still great to watch, but it would have been much better if we could have seen her attack.
I don’t know why there was a delay in the coverage. After all of the hype we didn’t get to see the key move. I was watching on GCN and they spent 35-40 minutes chatting when we could have been watching it live.