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Georgi: "Very emotional"

Pfeiffer Georgi (DSM-Firmenich PostNL): "When we crossed the line, I was not sure if I was 3rd or 4th and I was really hoping to get on the podium… So when it came on the screen, it was very emotional. It’s a Monumental race, a dream race of me and a big goal, so coming on the podium means a lot. I felt a lot of pressure coming in the velodrome because it’s...

Kopecky: "The cobble will get a special place"

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime): "Of course, I was nervous, but also quite relaxed, feeling how much confidence the team had in me. The feeling was not so good after last Sunday but I’m lucky to have really good friends and a really good team behind me. We wanted to stay out of trouble in the first 60 kilometres, then be in front in the first two sectors and then we knew...

Balsamo: “I surprised myself”

Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek): “Actually, if you had told me at the start I would finish 2nd, I wouldn’t have believed it, so I’m extremely happy, but when you’re runner up in such a race, you can’t help to feel some disappointment. It’s normal, but ten minutes have passed, and now I have to say I’m super satisfied and I want to thank my...

Kopecky, a rainbow icon on the cobbles

The start from Denain, with two loops to open up the race, is marked by strong winds. Already wary of the breakaway after Alison Jackson’s triumph in 2023, the peloton also fear potential echelons.

The tension is high, leading to several crashes including Jackson’s, and the early attackers are kept under control. Victoire Joncheray (Komugi-Grand Est) sets...

Info with one day to go

The 24 teams lining up for the 4th edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift are gearing for 148.5km of battle (including 29.2km of cobble sectors) through the wind and in the sunshine. SD Worx-Protime and Lidl-Trek count on their collective strength to rule the cobbles. “The key is the team”, Lars Boom says about Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes. Dutch icon Marianne...

Escape from Hell

2023 : Alison Jackson Alison Jackson: “Don’t think, just do”

“In the three editions that we’ve seen, Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift has been won in a different way on a different part of the course”, Alison Jackson (EF Education-Cannondale) celebrates as she gets ready to defend her crown in the French Monument. In 2021,...

Stars take on the myth

The first three editions of Paris-Roubaix Femmes avec Zwift crowned three very different winners, through opposite scenarios. What will the winner of the fourth edition invent in order to succeed Elizabeth Deignan (2021), Elisa Longo Borghini (2022) and Alison Jackson (2023) ? A star studded peloton is gearing in Denain ahead of Saturday’s battles over the cobbles leading...

Cobbles galore

They will be shaking at the mere thought of it, namely the programme reserved for the riders on Paris-Roubaix after one hundred kilometres, when they will encounter the first cobbled section of the day on exiting the village of Troisvilles (# 29, after 96.3 km). It is a traditional starter to the day’s menu of cobbles, but its familiarity makes it no less dreaded, often...