Paris-Roubaix 2026 Preview
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this episode Patrick Broe and Benji Naesen preview the men's and women's third monument of 2026, Paris-Roubaix.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Lenton Rouge Cycling Podcast for the preview of Parry Roubaix 26, |
| 0:05.8 | men and women's edition, brought to by a show partner, Join Cycling. |
| 0:10.7 | We have a bumper edition again this year. |
| 0:14.1 | Not everyone in perfect shape, like looking at Mads Pedersen, |
| 0:17.4 | but we do have all the main classics contenders, at least for the men's, |
| 0:22.1 | here in decent shape. |
| 0:24.1 | Vanderpul, Pagaccia, Pedersen, Van Art, Florian Vermeish in career form, |
| 0:29.3 | as well as Bora with the stronger block than last year with Van Dyke, Mayus, Pithi, Vamesh. |
| 0:36.1 | So it's, yeah, there's no question marks, no asterisks. |
| 0:41.8 | We have the same route as typical. |
| 0:44.0 | 260 kilometers from Compena to Roubaix. |
| 0:46.8 | The first 100 Ks are tarmac on sort of still sketchy rows going through the villages. |
| 0:53.9 | There can be crashes. It's nervous. The break fight goes on there. So it's rows going through the villages. There can be crashes. It's nervous. |
| 0:56.0 | The break fight goes on there. So it's not easy at the start. Then the first cobbled sector is with |
| 1:00.8 | 170Ks to go. Sector 30 of 30. And they come pretty thick and fast in that phase of 20Ks there. |
| 1:09.1 | Then there's a little bit of a break. Then they begin another |
| 1:12.3 | section with what I call the, I don't know, the unpronounceables. That's what I'm calling. I call that |
| 1:20.5 | the sector 24 to 21. There's the unpronounceables before dinner. Then there's another break before |
| 1:26.7 | dinner. Then have Louis O'Awelle's the first big boy section. And that comes before Trouet, Darenberg, |
| 1:32.9 | which is about 95Ks to go, which is the nasty, nasty forest section. And then it's just on |
| 1:38.4 | a continual long cobble sectors in that phase after that with five-star sectors like Mons-en-Povel, |
| 1:45.8 | which is the last main sector before the famous finish in the Parry-Rubei |
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