Paris-Roubaix is always great to watch, but it’s also a crazy race. No matter who wins, you always come away wondering – what if? Across those sectors of pavé, there are always so many incidents and little pieces of bad luck that can add up to make a big difference at the end.
Mathieu van der Poel completed a wonderful cobbled Classics campaign with a solo victory. But when his longstanding rival Wout van Aert reached the velodrome, he must have been wondering how different the outcome could have been without two critical punctures.
