Male Team 03 Oct
Paris-Roubaix
257.7 Kilometers
The race will be available in its entirety on Eurosport 1 and GCN, at 10.50am approx.
The Movistar Team’s best result in the ‘Queen of the Classics’ is Imanol Erviti’s 9th spot in 2016.
Cycling fans had to wait for two-and-a-half years to watch another edition of Paris-Roubaix. The hardest months of the pandemic took it away from the calendar in 2020, and the subsequent covid waves in early 2021 forced it to be held, as the health situation turned into a more controlled scenario, in the autumn, when cycling will be able to enjoy, for the second season in a row, two Monument classics in October.
55 kilometers of cobblestones await the riders in a race always quite agile in its first 100 kilometers, seeking for the early break, before later entering the grueling succession of cobbled sectors, 30 in total – three of which are categorized as ‘five-star’ ones.
The Trouée d’Arenberg, placed with 95km to go, with its slight downhill and its brutal cobblestones, makes a first real selection. Mons-en-Pévèle, 48km from the end and immediately precede by the ‘four-star’ Bersée sector, turns the screw a bit harder. And with about 20km from the end, the succession of Camphin-en-Pévèle (****) and the Carrefour de l’Arbre (*****) sees the decisive attacks forming – even if a likely scenario remains of watching the strongest battling for glory at the sprint in the Velodrome.