Just a few months short of a decade on from her last road victory at the 2015 Giro d’Italia, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot clinched one of the most prestigious successes of her career by winning Paris-Roubaix Femmes, just a week after finishing runner-up to Lotte Kopecky at the Tour of Flanders.
Speaking in the wake of her Roubaix win, the 33-year-old Frenchwoman confessed that neither race had initially been on her programme for the initial part of this season and that she'd been racing Roubaix purely to support her team leader Mariannne Vos.
