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'I don't see where Van der Poel can drop Pogačar on Sunday. Or vice versa.' - Patrick Lefevere, 'Mr. Paris-Roubaix', predicts velodrome showdown between two biggest stars

Patrick Lefevere Pogačar van der Poel Roubaix Quickstep Mathieu van der Poel Nieuwsblad
1998 Paris-Roubaix: the late Franco Ballerini en route to his second victory in four editions.

Former Soudal-QuickStep boss and cobbled Classics star director Patrick Lefevere has predicted that neither Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) nor defending champion Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Premier Tech) will be able to drop the other en route to Roubaix velodrome in the Hell of the North on Sunday.

With six Paris-Roubaix wins and six podiums in his director's palmares in the QuickStep squad between 2005 and 2019, not to mention overseeing multiple victories in the same race in the 1990s with predecessor GB-MG and its variants, as a manager, Lefevere had the biggest strike rate of victories in the toughest Classic of them all.

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