Paris-Roubaix is a venerable route that tends to remain the same from one year to the next, with cobbled stretches such as the Arenberg Forest and Carrefour de l’Arbre offering familiar decisive battlegrounds for the riders.
This year the men’s race features a new-old addition in the form of the Haspres sector, which comes at km 139 in the run-up to Arenberg 22km later. It was last used in 2004, when Magnus
