Van der Poel also wants to win Paris-Roubaix after ‘Flanders’

Mathieu van der Poel is also going for the win in Paris-Roubaix after his victory in the Tour of Flanders. The Dutch cyclist will be the favorite at the start in Compiègne at 11.15 am. Van der Poel drove his first Paris-Roubaix last October and then finished third, behind Italian Sonny Colbrelli and Florian Vermeersch from Belgium.

Paris-Roubaix is ​​now back to normal in the spring. The classic covers 257.5 kilometers and traditionally ends at the Roubaix velodrome. There are thirty cobblestone strips along the way.

Two weeks ago, Van der Poel won the Tour of Flanders for the second time. In the Amstel Gold Race, the leader of Alpecin-Fenix ​​finished in fourth place last week. The Belgian Wout van Aert makes his comeback in the ‘Hell of the North’, after he had to skip Flanders and the Gold Race due to a corona infection. Colbrelli is missing in Northern France. The Italian recently received an internal defibrillator after he collapsed due to cardiac arrhythmias after a ride in the Tour of Catalonia.

Italian cyclist Elisa Longo Borghini won the second edition of Paris-Roubaix in the women on Saturday after a solo of more than 30 kilometers. The men’s race is expected to end a little after 5 p.m. in Roubaix.