Participants Paris-Roubaix 2025 | First teams have completed selection for The Hell of the North!
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On Sunday, it is time for Paris-Roubaix! The Hell of the North is circled in red on every cycling fan's calendar every year because of the excitement it guarantees. This year, perhaps more top riders than ever are traveling to northern France to spend a day battling on the dreaded cobblestones. Who are these riders? IDLProCycling.com lists them for you!
So there are more top riders than ever, as world champion Tadej Pogacar announced that he would start in Paris-Roubaix after a long period of rumors. The Slovenian rider hopes to achieve two special things. A victory would establish Pogi's name among riders such as Mathieu van der Poel, Peter Sagan, Eddy Merckx, Rick van Looy, and Bernard Hinault, who have all triumphed in Roubaix while wearing the rainbow jersey. And if the Slovenian wins on Sunday, he will join an exclusive club that includes Merckx and Hinault, as he will be the third rider to win The Hell of the North as the reigning Tour de France winner.
If Pogacar wants to earn a place in the history books, he must beat the strong competition. Two-time Roubaix winner Van der Poel, for example, is out for revenge after losing the Tour of Flanders last Sunday. Mads Pedersen also showed excellent form with an amazing solo in Gent-Wevelgem. Furthermore, the recovering Wout van Aert and the always-strong Filippo Ganna will also be favorites on the cobblestones in northern France.
The riders will start - as has been the case since 1977 - in Compiègne, after which they will cover just under 260 kilometers. The brave riders who venture into The Hell of the North can keep a fairly steady pace for the first hundred kilometers, after which no less than thirty (!) cobblestone sections will follow. This includes the famous stretches of the Trouée d'Arenberg and Mons-en-Pévèle.
Confirmed selections (and corresponding ambitions) Paris-Roubaix 2025
- Movistar (Mathias Norsgaard and Iván García Cortina)
- TotalEnergies (Anthony Turgis)
Provisional start list Paris-Roubaix 2025
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- Such negative comments that are truly inappropriate and actually ridiculous. He sounds like an old man, bitter that he can't race anymore. Why can't he just be gracious? Or just shut up. Instead of howling for attention, in such a rude manner. Must be Dementia creeping in. We are all living in the Now. Records are there, and some are being broken, some are unapproachable. If he doesn't like it, and it makes him sick, maybe he ought start watching some other sport. Don't want the old mans health to be upset.
reemmo031-03-2025 - Roger De Vlaeminck inspires me to create a new beer: "Bitter Old Twat Belgian".JackInhof31-03-2025
- Shoot, I'll ride it for 1/10 of what his pay for that day is😅Veganpotter30-03-2025
- What is this? The Lance Armstrong daily cheaters channel? I could care less about Johan and Lance the seven times cheater. Greg Lemond was right all along, Why don't you write about that instead of these two knuckleheads.velodrone28-03-2025
- Are we all doomed to hear from Lance Armstrong and Johan bruneel until the end of time? It's not enough the stain they left on cycling? Do we have to see that shadow forever?bigyakman26-03-2025
- I am not sure if it is the hardest to win. In Flanders and Roubaix well before the finish the Peleton will be decimated and the race will normally be won by the best rider of the day or maybe 2nd or 3rd in case of a mechanical or unlucky break especially in case of Roubaix. In San Remo just before the finish there will still be several riders in contention and they are hard to ditch. For the best riders it is a race hard to win since it is not so selective. But if you are not a top 5 rider but still a top 10 rider this race is your best change to win. You will see more Milan San remo Winners with only 1 monument win than any other monumentsJoostmehrtens19-03-2025
- "fap fap fap oh Lance oh oh OHHHHHHH" again. Does he pay you to dredge up people with nice things to say about him? He was an giant a$$hole to people. It is a fact. Whatever his contrition about the doping, he is unapologetic about being a giant a$$hole to people. (Why yes, I do only login to complain. *I* am however only a giant a$$hole to people who laud giant a$$holes.)ericjensenridesbikes25-02-2025
- Remco is still very young. And injuries can absolutely keep you from overdoing it and getting worse. The recent Remco accident didn't keep him from being able to ride a recumbent inside. Wout's knee is a different story thoughVeganpotter23-01-2025
- Van der Poel style is winning by a half a lap and leading the race from the end of the second lap.
Barnes127420-01-2025 - If she thinks talent alone will put her there she will not see many podium finishes much less a GC finish.....work as a team utilizing tactics to consistently be at the top.Germanrazor10-01-2025