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Paris-Roubaix 2017 video round-up - including on-bike footage

Our selection of some of the top footage from yesterday's big race...

Paris-Roubaix always produces drama and spectacle, and yesterday’s 115th edition of the race, won by BMC Racing’s Greg van Avermaet, was no exception.

Here’s a round-up of some of the videos of a day when four-time winner Tom Boonen brought the curtain down on his career in what was his last ever race.

First up, here’s some inside-the-peloton footage from Velon – topped and tailed by van Avermaet and his BMC Racing team mate, Daniel Oss in confident mood before the race, and in a celebratory one afterwards.

Here’s the official highlights video … though someone had better tell the commentator that the Tour of Flanders was last week, not next Sunday, and that van Avermaet was second again.

Orica-Scott’s Mat Hayman couldn’t repeat his success of 2016 … but at least he found a shower cubicle with his name on it.

Here’s footage of perhaps the most spectacular crash yesterday, still with 150 kilometres to go. The spectator top-right with the yellow Flanders flag seems oblivious to the carnage unfolding behind them.

And finally … here’s a reminder of those wins down the years by Boonen, described by the commentator as he crosses the line to take his fourth victory in 2012 as “Monsieur Paris-Roubaix.”

He was certainly popular at the team bus in Compiegne before the start of the race.

 

 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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