Alpecin-Deceuninck's Dutch rider Mathieu Van Der Poel and Jumbo-Visma's Belgian rider Wout Van Aert on the cobbles during the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic on April 9th. Photograph: Bernard Papon/Getty Images
Coming off a sweeping right-hand bend in dense woodland, with 35km to go, the crash unusually happened at the very front, taking out a dozen riders including Tour de France contenders Jonas Vingegaard, Primoz Roglic, Jay Vine and Remco Evenepoel Inevitably it has re-raised questions around rider safety, given this apparent black spot had no protective barriers . Ultimately it seems the riders themselves might just need to be a little more cautious.
At the finish line, he slowed to a freewheel and then unclipped his pedals, standing alone in his moment of glory, his bike raised above his head, a Belgian-born Dutch man, triumphant in Flanders yet again. “It’s a horrible race to ride, but the most beautiful one to win,” Kelly once said. “You can be the greatest going into the race, can be in your best shape, but there are so many fences to be jumped, the crashes, the mechanical problems, all of that.”
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