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Alasdair Fotheringham

Paris-Roubaix sector named after three-times winner Eddy Merckx

Eddy Merckx leads Roger De Vlaeminck at the 1973 Paris-Roubaix with Merckx wining the race for a third time

Eddy Merckx has become the sixth rider to have a Paris-Roubaix cobbled sector named after him, with the three-times winner of the Hell of the North present at a special ceremony on Thursday in northern France.

The often decisive 1.8 kilometre-long Camphin-en-Pévèle sector, which first formed part of Paris-Roubaix in 1980, two years after Merckx's retirement is now known as Secteur Eddy Merckx.

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