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It's Italian week. Used to be the Trittico Lombardo. Four nice Italian one day races building up to Lombardia. Coppa Bernocchi today.

Pretty sure that chap should do some research, unless he means that Deignan and UKAD haven't specifically explained to him personally.

Nicolas Roche announces his retirement.

Never a serial winner but a decent GC rider and valuable team mate.

Great advert for what P-R takes out of you.

"I'm so pleased for Sonny, I'll have a beer and then we'll go for it and celebrate, but right at the moment... I'm just so broken that I can't really be that happy. I mean, my eyes, I can't even really see."

If I was him, shower then bath then bed.

if I was him, I would live then laugh then love.

I reckon it was a bit of a chipper for softies. He doesn't even mention his gooch.

Pretty top trolling by Cav: winning Greipel's final race, in his home country

Yeah I have a lot of time for Nico Roche. He’s good in commentary, maybe could be a good rider representative, he could be good for the sport

Pics from the women's and men's Paris-Roubaix

https://cyclingtips.com/2021/10/gallery-the-grit-and-glory-of-paris-roubaix-femmes/

https://cyclingtips.com/2021/10/gallery-snapshots-of-hell-at-paris-roubaix/

Ps if you want any of the pics in full size, remove the -XXXX-YYY from the end of the jpg URL

captioning is pretty good

*Gianni Moscon was trying to hold off the inevitable, but shortly after this picture he crashed.

Which was not good. But it was also not not good.*

… and then it was over. An emotional victory for the Italian, who rode a pretty canny race and picked up a popular win for his unpopular human-rights-abusing-government-sponsored team.

This one, wow!

Obviously got DAS'd be a spectator.

Looking back I don't think Vermeersch got enough love for his ride. Unbelievable. The first four all did incredible rides.

captioning is pretty good

"These TotalEnergies riders looked a bit like they had TotalDysentery"

excellent thanks

Imagine being (momentarily, hopefully) disappointed with second place in your first ever P-R in your first pro season.

Really great ride.

more men's PR pix here

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/10157/paris-roubaix-2021-mens-gallery

It's true, overshadowed by Colbrelli's celebrations etc.

It doesn't seem like too many young pros excel at PR, maybe andyp has the scoop. He's had some decent results this year already.

Anyone going to watch the women's tour of Britain? Started yesterday, finishes on Saturday. Some of it quite close to London https://www.womenstour.co.uk/stages/

All three podium finishers were making their debut at Paris-Roubaix. I'd imagine that's not happened too often before.

I don't know anything extra about Vermeersch. The Cycling Podcast were talking to him a fair bit at the Vuelta, he's studying History at the University of Gent, and is also active in local politics I think. Clearly has a good engine too.