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Tom Davidson

Wout van Aert just rode the same Paris-Roubaix sector seven times – what is he plotting?

Wout van Aert riding a sector of Paris-Roubaix.

As many of the world’s best pro cyclists bed in for the off-season, Wout van Aert spent Tuesday morning in northern France, riding the farm tracks of Paris-Roubaix, over and over again.

So much so, in fact, that the Belgian became the Local Legend – a Strava title given to the rider who has completed a single segment the most in a 90-day period – on one of the race’s cobbled sectors: Camphin-en-Pévèle, which he rode seven times.

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