Paris-Roubaix Femmes Live – Attacks flying over late-race cobbled sectors

Vos and Balsamo side-by-side into the home straight. But Kopecky comes round to take the win!

Georgi opens up the sprint on the back-straight

1 lap to go!

Van Dijk leads it out. Georgi on her wheel.

1km to go

Here we go! 1.5 laps of the velodrome to decide it!

Sector 1 – Roubaix (Espace Charles Crupelandt)

A final cobblestone section. The group of six are 22 seconds ahead. It will be between the leaders.

2km to go

Vos is helping Van Dijk now who has done a lot of work. 

It looks like we’re heading for a big sprint in the iconic Roubaix velodrome. 

3km to go

Van Dijk sitting on the front of the lead group now. Looks like her plan is to lead Balsamo to the sprint now. 

Gap to chasers steady at 20 seconds. 

4km to go

A move from Amber Kraak is foiled. Van Dijk then attacks, but is chased down.

They are the two riders without a sprint, they will need to go long.

Gap still 20 seconds. 

The group in front is working well enough, they should hold off the chasers. 

Berteau makes a move off the front of the chase group with a rider from FDJ-Suez in the wheel. Wiebes chasing.

5km to go

The gap to the leaders is decreasing. 20 seconds now. 

Back onto the tarmac and this is the run-in to Roubaix.

The leaders need to be careful that they don’t take the foot off the gas too much. Wiebes is in the group behind and the leaders will want to keep her at bay.

Kim Le Court is leading the chasers on this cobbled sector. The mountain biker will be comfortable on the cobbles. 

The gap is staying stable at 23 seconds. 

Sector 2 – Willems à Hem

Last ‘proper’ cobbled sector now. It’s only 2* and lasts for 1.4km.

Kopecky is in control at the front.

The gap to the chasers has come down to 24 seconds now. 

10km to go

The group slows now, they are confident that the gap to the chasers is big enough that the winner will come from their group. 

Fenix-Deceuninck are pulling the chasing group.

Georgi and Balsamo make it back to the leaders. 

As they do, Van Dijk attacks again. What’s that? 7 attacks so far from Van Dijk?