Van Baarle goes from zero to hero to win fastest Paris-Roubaix for Ineos Grenadiers

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ROUBAIX, France : Six months after finishing the Queen of the Classics outside the time limit, Dylan van Baarle won the Paris-Roubaix Monument on Sunday to give the Ineos Grenadiers team their most prestigious victory in a one-day race.The 29-year-old Dutchman, who was second in the Tour of Flanders two w

ROUBAIX, France : Six months after finishing the Queen of the Classics outside the time limit, Dylan van Baarle won the Paris-Roubaix Monument on Sunday to give the Ineos Grenadiers team their most prestigious victory in a one-day race.

"I could not believe it when I went onto the velodrome. I looked on the other side to see if there were other guys but it was just me," Van Baarle, his face covered in a mix of sweat and dust, said after a 257.2-km effort. Favourite Mathieu van der Poel was never really in the mix and finished a disappointing ninth, more than two minutes behind his compatriot, the first Dutch rider to win Paris-Roubaix since Niki Terpstra in 2014.

 

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