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Cat Ferguson's Spring Classics column: My dream stays alive - I want to reach the velodrome at the end of Paris-Roubaix

Cat Ferguson (circled) with the Paris-Roubaix velodrome.

My Paris-Roubaix is not a success story, but nevertheless, it's drama-filled, and I'm sure it's just one of the many strange and bizarre tales from riders who have raced in the L’enfer du Nord (Hell of the North) - some have triumphs and others have unexpected experiences - every tale will be different, and this one is mine.

For context Roubaix was a big goal of mine that I picked out with my coaches and DS at the start of the year, and I was one of two proposed leaders before things turned sour on Friday, two days prior to the race, where I had planned on completing the third and final recon of the cleverly thought out schedule of recons and equipment testing in the final days before the race.

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