Paris-Roubaix 2023, one day monument, April 9 (men's)

[Orbit501]

Race over. MVDP wins by default.

Booooooo!

Apologies. Passion, Duvel, La Chouffe and Leffe got the better of me.
In all honesty, I think the strongest rider won today. I also really like MVDP. Chapeau for today's race. His team rider a blinder today.
I was just gutted to see Degs go out like that and then for WVA to get that puncture completely killed the race for me.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

 

[Valv.Piti]

Danish studio saying Pedersen's 4th place, is the best Danish placing in PR for 127 years

Welcome back, you were sorely missed

 

[LookProGoSlow]

Let the polemic begin!!

 

[Wvv]

Feel so, so bitter. The amount of bad luck Van Aert has in Roubaix.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ah yes, I love me some Roubaix.

This is exactly the frickin reason why Tour of Flanders is a bette race. Its honest, this is not.

Calm down fanboy, enjoy the ride.

 

[Aimar16]

Are you saying that Kung and Ganna don't bridge if Laporte doesn't puncture?

Küng was in the WvA&MvdP group

 

[meat puppet]

Ah yes, I love me some Roubaix.

This is exactly the frickin reason why Tour of Flanders is a bette race. Its honest, this is not.

Nah. This is brutally honest.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Apologies. Passion, Duvel, La Chouffe and Leffe got the better of me.
In all honesty, I think the strongest rider won today. I also really like MVDP. Chapeau for today's race. His team rider a blinder today.
I was just gutted to see Degs go out like that and then for WVA to get that puncture completely killed the race for me.

Yes, but without the puncrure, I think Wout wins the sprint against him.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Btw, I totally called the Walscheid top 10 yesterday

 

[movingtarget]

Degenkolb was unfortunate as was WVA but it probably wouldnt have changed the result. Not convinced WVA was going to win the sprint. Very fast race and VDP was making every corner count. VDP did the right thing with his attacks as fatigue hit most the of lead group before the finish. Phillipsen had a great race.

 

[Brullnux]

Obviously we will never know but I think Van Aert would've won without that puncture, which hopefully ends the Van-Aert-is-cycling's-Dortmund hysteria

 

[Ricco']

Yes, but without the puncrure, I think Wout wins the sprint against him.

Would they work together or with WVA on his wheel would MVP let Philipsen join again?

 

[Valv.Piti]

Nah. This is brutally honest.

Carrefour dL was a shitshow today, unfortunately. Otherwise good race, but we got robbed for a real duel.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Can someone tell me why Philipsen is not DQ'd?
So what he did was legal?

Imo it was an incident, but you can dq someone for such a move and I won't complain...

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

Would they work together or with WVA on his wheel would MVP let Philipsen join again?

Good ponit.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Roubaix is the reason why Boonen is the best rider in these races. How could he won 4 Roubaix? It looks like a russian roulette

 

[Red Rick]

Gotta love how you can now cause crashes to your own benefit in the final of a monument.

 

[Boehmand]

Welcome back, you were sorely missed

Well there have been other 7 top 10s in the meantimne, so it's not entirely a wasteland , but it's certainly not a race with big national palmares

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I don’t think he was “held back by orders,” I think Alpecin played it dead right when you have a strong attacker and the fastest sprinter both in the group.

Yeah, they made amazing moves like Laporte puncturing in Arenberg and Van Aert puncturing in Carrefour de l‘Arbre when he was in front on his own because Van der Poel and Philipsen did a bike handling and coordination master class crashing another guy out of contention.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Would they work together or with WVA on his wheel would MVP let Philipsen join again?

I don't think Van der Poel would gift the race to Philipsen if he could win it himself. He's no Van Aert.

 

[Elos Anjos]

Cycling fans should get their priorities straight.

1. cycling is much affected by chance;
2. whoever wins is often not the most strong rider;
3. cycling is not about justice; all hindsight behavior is an exercise in fiction;

 

[frisenfruitig]

Can't imagine how WVA must be feeling right now. Couldn't have picked a worse time to have a mechanical.

 

[Jagartrott]

Degenkolb was unfortunate as was WVA but it probably wouldnt have changed the result. Not convinced WVA was going to win the sprint. Very fast race and VDP was making every corner count. VDP did the right thing with his attacks as fatigue hit most the of lead group before the finish. Phillipsen had a great race.

Van Aert was still plenty punchy after his flat, and VDP never was able to ride Van Aert off his wheel. I'm quite convinced Van Aert would have won a two-up sprint or would've dropped VDP earlier. But we'll never know. We were robbed of a great finale this way.

 

[ashhutch1997]

This gaves me flashbacks of the 2009 Paris Roubaix, where all the riders crashed and left Tom Boonen on his own without really attacking.
But the result was the same, both times the strongest and most aggressive rider won