2025 Paris-Roubaix Preview: If this year’s Paris-Roubaix is as good as Sunday’s Tour of Flanders, there won’t be any complaints from the road/TV side. The cobbled Classic has two BIG favourites: World champion Tadej Pogaar and the winner of the last two Roubaix’s, Mathieu van der Poel. As we all know, anything can happen on the northern French pav, but there is a queue of other riders who can step up. Here is the PEZ ‘Hell of the North’ preview:—————Watch some of the biggest events in the world including the Tour de France, Giro d’ Italia, UCI and more all on FloBikes.Paris-Roubaix 2024:2024 Paris-Roubaix highlights—————Mathieu van der Poel won Paris-Roubaix for the second time in a row with a long solo ride. A week after his victory in the Tour of Flanders, his Alpecin-Deceuninck team split the race early, then the World champion went solo with 60 kilometres to go. He had three minutes to enjoy his win on the Roubaix velodrome. Jasper Philipsen sprinted far second place, Mads Pedersen finished third.Mud and dust in 2024The first hour of racing was at a high pace, over 54kph. The strong tail-wind and the riders wanting to be in the early break, made sure the speed was high. In that first hour, a group of seven broke away, with Per Strand Hagenes (Visma | Lease a Bike), Rasmus Tiller (Uno-X Mobility), Kasper Asgreen (Soudal Quick-Step), Liam Slock (Lotto Dstny), Marco Haller (BORA-hansgrohe), Gleb Syritsa (Astana Qazaqstan) and Kamil Malecki (Q36.5). They were…
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