‘This year it didn’t work out but it’s the beauty of this race’ – Alison Jackson still smiling after Paris-Roubaix defeat

Alison Jackson was unable to repeat her 2023 Paris-Roubaix victory but true to character, she was still smiling in the centre of the velodrome after crashing twice, being distanced from the decisive front group and finishing 27th and 2:56 down on winner Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx).  

“This year it didn’t work out but it’s the beauty of the race,” the EF Education-Cannondale racer told Cyclingnews and Escape Collective after soaking up the emotions –  even the emotions of defeat –  in the centre of the Roubaix velodrome.