Hell of the North
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Niki Terpstra celebrates the biggest victory of his career at Paris-Roubaix in 2014 (pic: Sirotti)
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Niki Terpstra defends his Paris-Roubaix title after finishing second at the Tour of Flanders (pic: Sirotti)
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Alexander Kristoff celebrates his Tour of Flanders victory in 2015 (pic: Sirotti)
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Sir Bradley Wiggins will bid farewell to Team Sky after Paris-Roubaix (Pic: Sirotti)
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Milan-San Remo champion John Degenkolb was second at Paris-Roubaix last year (pic: Sirotti)
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Lars Boom leads Astana at Paris-Roubaix, having conquered the cobbles to win stage five of the Tour de France last year (pic: Sirotti)
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Andre Greipel showed lots of attacking intent at the Tour of Flanders (pic: Sirotti)
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Peter Sagan has cut a frustrated figure of late and Tinkoff-Saxo have much to prove (pic: Sirotti)
Hell of the North
The professional peloton moves from the cobbled climbs of Flanders to the iconic pavé of northern France next Sunday for Paris-Roubaix.
The 113th Hell of the North will see the peloton’s hardmen regroup after Sunday’s enthralling Ronde to take on the Queen of the Classics, bidding for supremacy in the Roubaix velodrome.
Runner-up on Sunday, last year’s winner Niki Terpstra (Etixx-QuickStep) heads the list of contenders for a race which also marks the end of Sir Bradley Wiggins’ Team Sky career.
Flanders winner Alexander Kristoff, meanwhile, will be bidding to add a third Monument to a palmares which already included last year’s Milan-San Remo before his Flanders success on Sunday.
No less than 27 cobbled secteurs stand between the 200 riders set for the Compiègne-Clairoix startline and the Roubaix Velodrome, including the iconic Arenberg Forest.
So who can we expect to see raising their arms on Sunday afternoon? We have rounded up the leading candidates over the following pages.
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