Paris-Roubaix 2025, one day monument, April 13 (men)

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Who will win?

  • Van der Poel

    Votes: 50 28.9%
  • Pogacar

    Votes: 34 19.7%
  • Van Aert

    Votes: 30 17.3%
  • Pedersen

    Votes: 31 17.9%
  • Ganna

    Votes: 10 5.8%
  • Philipsen

    Votes: 8 4.6%
  • Kung

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Stuyven

    Votes: 1 0.6%
  • Other/Vino

    Votes: 8 4.6%

  • Total voters
    173
Mar 31, 2015
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95% sure it's just because riders are focused on the cobbles and just zone out completely outside the cobbles. Also riders don't try to maneuver past each other so much on the cobbles.
First few crashes were down to fights for position, this was just poor.

Ganna/Philipsen group took it really easy for some reason on that asphalt bit - maybe got slowed down by the crash on the road, actually.
 
Sep 20, 2017
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95% sure it's just because riders are focused on the cobbles and just zone out completely outside the cobbles. Also riders don't try to maneuver past each other so much on the cobbles.

Lapse of concentration

Fighting for position
Those arguments apply every year, but usually we don't see quite so many crashes on the asphalt and we also usually see at least one crash on the early sectors.
 
May 6, 2021
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Alpecin doing the right thing going for the tepid Sunday ride strategy, Phillipsen behind and UAE need an attrition race that they don't seem to have the horses for.
 
Nov 5, 2013
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I think I got it wrong. Alpecin are taking it easy on the front. The peloton is thinning itself on on its own.
They seem to be letting Ganna and Philipsen (understandably) back on. They did string it out before the last sectur, but yeah, now they seem pretty chill.