Reckless souvenir snafflers are making the notoriously tricky and technical course of the Paris-Roubaix even more perilous than it always is, by collecting cobblestones from some of the Monument's most iconic sections in the days leading up to the event, race organisers have revealed this week.
With the Hell of the North taking place this Sunday, frustrated course designer Thierry Gouvenou spoke out to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf after another cobblestone went missing from the infamous section of the race route that rattles through the Forest of Wallers, leaving a lethal-looking gap just waiting to embrace a rider's wheel.
