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Paris Roubaix: Also called, Hell of the North or La Pascale (Easter Race)

The 108th Paris-Roubaix, which takes place this Sunday April 11th. This year’s edition will feature 28 awful cobblestone sections along the 259 km course followed the traditional finish in the velodrame in Roubaix. Paris-Roubaix is one of the oldest races on the professional road cycling calendar. First run in 1896, it has been stopped only by the two world wars.

If you thought the cobblestones in last weekend’s Tour of Flanders were bad listen to what Chris Horner has to say about Paris-Roubaix. “Let me tell you, though – there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one – it’s completely different . . . The best I could do would be to describe it like this – they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That’s Paris-Roubaix. It’s that bad – it’s ridiculous.”

Source: Steephill.tv

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