Paris-Roubaix 2026, one day monument, April 12

[Cookster15]

Congrats to Wout van Aert - great to see.

What can we say but an amazing edition and a very deserved champion in my opinion. Fastest P-R in history despite the crashes. All the contenders had bad luck. Wout had his bad luck but was so strong to fight back into a position where he could win. Once he was with Pogi he was always going to win the sprint in the velodrome.

Tadej did everything he could to win the race, another bridesmaid for him but no shame. After watching his skill on those cobbles it would be a brave person who bets he won't win this race one day - perhaps 2027?

 

[Red Rick]

That was not my point. Sport as a competition makes sense if a better sportsman wins. If the logic that rewards a lesser sportsman prevails, sport looses and mediocracy (and show) takes over.

Without Pog WvA never wins today (and this I could not say for VdP's win last year). He should recognise that. Since he hasn't, I assume he believes he deserved it. If this logic prevails, the sport is dead.

In all my years of wasting time on the cycling internet, I'm not sure I've ever read a comment as wrong as this one. It is wrong on every single level apart from the fact that it does appear to be English.

 

[HashRouge]

I'm still buzzing from that race. I feel like we've had a really good set of Spring races so far - the cobbled classics as a whole have been highly entertaining, MSR was an absolute riot, and now we've finally had a really fun Roubaix again, after a couple of years of impressive but uncompetitive van der Poel solos. I'm fairly optimistic for the Ardennes too, especially with del Toro out of Amstel and Flèche, and Remco and Seixas in great form, so hopefully a more competitive LBL than the last two years.

 

[noob]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043392003883274729

View: https://x.com/AnthonyBa5/status/2043392003883274729


Gotta spam some cheering images for Wout as they're quite incredible!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043391698642903475

View: https://x.com/RuitemDias/status/2043391698642903475

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043337087198388674

View: https://x.com/AceroCaballito/status/2043337087198388674

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043369516436976008

View: https://x.com/parisroubaix/status/2043369516436976008

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043344003702177950

View: https://x.com/JDenaeghel/status/2043344003702177950

 

[aphronesis]

In all my years of wasting time on the cycling internet, I'm not sure I've ever read a comment as wrong as this one. It is wrong on every single level apart from the fact that it does appear to be English.

You might brace for much worse english in coming years.

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

@ unchained

seriously?

I find it pathetic - not the dedication bit but self-contentment that it was a win OVER a world champion. He literally carried him over the finish line

I'ma pack this post into my electrolyte bottle. It's plenty salty.

 

[noob]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043439066469851302

View: https://x.com/VelonCC/status/2043439066469851302


This might be interesting to see as well

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043392003883274729

View: https://x.com/AnthonyBa5/status/2043392003883274729


Gotta spam some cheering images for Wout as they're quite incredible!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043391698642903475

View: https://x.com/RuitemDias/status/2043391698642903475

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043337087198388674

View: https://x.com/AceroCaballito/status/2043337087198388674

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043369516436976008

View: https://x.com/parisroubaix/status/2043369516436976008

https://twitter.com/x/status/2043344003702177950

View: https://x.com/JDenaeghel/status/2043344003702177950

What a beautiful post!

 

[ChewbaccaDefense]

I just watched the last 2 and a half hours, again.

Unsung hero was Matthew Brennan. He delivered Wout to the front at Arenberg, which gave him the ability to pick his path through. Mathieu was on his wheel, having little to no time to react to the cobbles, and that made all the difference in the world.

 

[Unchained]

@ unchained

seriously?

I find it pathetic - not the dedication bit but self-contentment that it was a win OVER a world champion. He literally carried him over the finish line

We obviously disagree on racing,
Pogacar and Van Aert played zero games, each guy knew that a bunch of monkey business for position would give hope to the chase.
Each rider traded decent pulls, and I would have bet even money that in a drag race after 258k would be one thing but the Tadej chase obviously burned some matches,
Pogacar instead of taking even a momentary rest after chasing really, really hard, he jumped again and caused further chaos. Brilliant bike racing, Van Aert did everything that has been criticized from other races this year, he put some serious responsibility on Laporte who raced as good as anyone including the winner.
To lose by less than a bike against Wout is a no shame event. Please keep in mind what Van Aert accomplished, he didn't just beat World Champion Pogacar he kept him from a classics sweep. I get the idea of trying to downplay the win, I don't agree or understand it,
but just poopooing because you can is a thing I get it.
If you think the race blew and guys were holding something back, chases after crashes, bike problems, bike changes were all fake.. Cool..
This all could have been AI generated ,
my beer brothers from Sint -Niklaas were there in person and enjoyed it, I think it was a great day for the race, for the World Champion, for Belgium, for bike racing, and for Wout and his family, friends, teammates, fans..no wet blankets will ruin how good all this made me feel.. Incredible race.