“I am told that Paris-Roubaix often smiles at older riders. That didn’t stop me from winning it at twenty-four. » We were in 2005 and Tom Boonen, freshly won, brought together in one sentence two antagonistic observations: one, that the privilege of age opens an easier path to victory on the cobblestones of the North; the other, that any cycling rule is made to be happily trampled on in wedge shoes, especially when a dashing and gluttonous young guard appears.
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