The first outing in holy week, the Tour of Flanders, wet the appetite and now the battlelines are drawn for Sunday’s 122nd edition of Paris-Roubaix.
The third Monument of the season can be a particularly fickle race to conquer, labelled the Hell of the North for good reason, as riders take on 30 sections of cobbled roads to add 53.7 potentially tumultuous kilometres to twist the outcome of the 259.2km race from Compiègne to the fabled Roubaix velodrome.
