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'Paris-Roubaix is love-hate and I finally have some love' – Megan Jastrab ecstatic after top-five finish in Hell of the North

Megan Jastrab and winner Franziska Koch hug and smile at the finish of Paris-Roubaix Femmes 2026.

Megan Jastrab could barely believe it. The tears immediately started to flow, and she looked up to scan the panorama of the Roubaix velodrome as if to check if this was really happening.

It was. Fifth place at Paris-Roubaix. One of the biggest results of the 24-year-old US rider's career so far, and finally an end to the suffering she'd simply come to expect from the Hell of the North.

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