As the races do year after year, Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Roubaix Femmes drew the cobbled Classics season to a close in spectacular fashion at the weekend.
The pair of races, run over the cruel cobblestones of France’s Nord department, delivered pain, emotion, controversy, and joy in equal measure as Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) triumphed in Roubaix’s famous Vélodrome André-Petrieux.
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