Paris-Roubaix Stage 3: the Velodrome

by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 10, 2009 10:02 AM EDT in News

Got company? Apparently the plan is to jump before the last turn. This works even though everyone knows that's where it will go down.

Paris Roubaix 2008 finish - tom boonen (via jpev94)

Of course, sometimes there are alternatives...

1996 Paris-Roubaix (via SmithersMpls)

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1990 edition

had a crazy finish at the Velodrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPkdTdjLqnk

Ô col Bayard, Ô Tourmalet, à côté du Galibier, vous êtes de la pale et vulgaire bibine !

by ton_oncle on Apr 10, 2009 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

another "oh so close!" for our Bauer

wish he could have won this one, or that crazy world championship…still, a pretty impressive career.

by plinytheelder on Apr 11, 2009 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions

1997 with Guesdon is my favorite velodrome finish...

just because the little guy won… here courtesy of SmitherMpls

by Vlaanderen90 on Apr 10, 2009 11:22 AM EDT reply actions

Cool photo gallery

There’s a cool photo gallery up at l’equipe. The captions are in French, but the photos are worth a look.

I did not know that Francesco Moser won Paris-Roubaix three times. Heh, I just never pictured him on the cobbles.

by Jen See on Apr 10, 2009 12:23 PM EDT reply actions

On youtube somewhere they have a video of A sunday in Hell (L'enfer du Nord)

and it shows Moser pretty well and he is just smooooth over the cobbles…
Other than his 3 wins, he had 2 seconds and 2 thirds…pretty stellar.

by Vlaanderen90 on Apr 10, 2009 12:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Being a follower of Roger DeVlaeminck

I like to think that two of those wins were equal to Devolder’s wins in Flanders. That is to say, more than somewhat influenced by everyone focusing on his teammate. I’m wrong to this this, but that doesn’t seem to stop me.

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by Koppenberg on Apr 10, 2009 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions

ye gads

I’m wrong to think this. I can’t handle “this” being used as a verb.

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by Koppenberg on Apr 10, 2009 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions

"Paris-Roubaix est une connerie!"

…he says right after he’s won it in the rainbow jersey.

I read somewhere that he also said “don’t think I’m going to change my mind just because I’ve won it.” Awesome.

Great quote about Moser, after his third straight win, from Jacques Goddet in L’équipe: “It needs the excesses of Paris-Roubaix for a champion like Moser to express himself completely.”

by plinytheelder on Apr 10, 2009 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

1996 Finish

“A complete lap of honor.”

“I’ve never seen anything like it.”

And today we know the rest of the story about what went down that year…

by Chief Commissaire on Apr 10, 2009 1:18 PM EDT reply actions

Is there a better photo

than this?

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by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 10, 2009 1:49 PM EDT reply actions

Not to be too much of a Quick-Step homer,

but it’s nice to have a man like that calling the shots in the car!

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by Koppenberg on Apr 10, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

You can’t accuse him of not understanding the race.

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by Chris Fontecchio on Apr 10, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions

better? maybe not. Funnier?

http://bp3.blogger.com/_Z5Bu_xlHivo/RcYdpiLVIBI/AAAAAAAAADA/REuJwSQfx24/s1600-h/foto-2583-200.jpg

by jsallee00 on Apr 10, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah, that Rabo team spirit...

"Sean Kelly? Sorry, I am not so good with cycling history. I just want to race." --Edvald Boasson Hagen

by majope on Apr 10, 2009 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions

High-larious

Can you provide any context for the pic? I assume that’s Sven Nys as the flipee, but who is the flipper?

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by Koppenberg on Apr 10, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions

RIchard Groenendall...it was with his last years with Rabo.

by Vlaanderen90 on Apr 10, 2009 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions

An account of the race

here. Scroll down to “Go Team!”

"Sean Kelly? Sorry, I am not so good with cycling history. I just want to race." --Edvald Boasson Hagen

by majope on Apr 10, 2009 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions

thanks,

interesting stuff.

by the way did Boasson Hagen really say that? Good lord.

by plinytheelder on Apr 10, 2009 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Yup.

Direct quote from CN the other day.

"Sean Kelly? Sorry, I am not so good with cycling history. I just want to race." --Edvald Boasson Hagen

by majope on Apr 10, 2009 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

What Henk Vogels said to Brent Bookwalter about racing in Paris-Roubaix

"He was punching Louder in the shoulder, saying ‘no, listen to me, you don’t understand, you’re not listening’ and he was like ‘yeah I’m listening’, ‘no you don’t understand’ . ‘I don’t care how many guys you have to bump off the road, you make sure that you’re at the front of the field’."

brutal. oh yeah!

by lyne on Apr 10, 2009 2:02 PM EDT reply actions

great interviews as usual

thanks Lyne. I don’t think I would break eye contact with Henk Vogels if he were giving me advice on how to race my bike better!

by australopithecine on Apr 10, 2009 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions

thank you

yep, I wouldn’t advise to breaking eye contact with Henk.

by lyne on Apr 10, 2009 11:59 PM EDT reply actions

And for another minor factoid

(stolen straight from Tuttobiciweb) Skil – Shimano rider Long Jin looks set to be the first Chinese rider ever to take part in P-R. I somehow doubt that he has the right physique.

by Monty. on Apr 11, 2009 3:37 PM EDT reply actions

Almost the same height/weight as Van Avermaet or Boasson Hagen.

Picture here. Not saying they’re major contenders tomorrow, but nobody that I know of has come out and said they don’t have the right physique.

"Sean Kelly? Sorry, I am not so good with cycling history. I just want to race." --Edvald Boasson Hagen

by majope on Apr 11, 2009 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions

180 tall

That works out at about 5’11. In which case I should apologise for making cheap stereotypical remarks about little chinese men. And now I’ve looked it up it seems that there are all sorts of regional variations. Yet another way to waste time on the internet.

by Monty. on Apr 12, 2009 1:53 PM EDT up reply actions