It's fair to say that the bike racing gods often favour hard work and perseverance, but the Hell of the North is an exception to that rule, as Lidl-Trek found out at Saturday's Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
The squad consisted of several potential race winners in their own right in Emma Norsgaard, Ellen van Dijk and Elisa Balsamo, alongside inaugural winner Lizzie Deignan, who returned to the scene of her monumental victory for the first time in five years.
