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Remember Roubaix

Back near the start of iso, with the 2020 Paris-Roubaix postponed, I instead decided to take to Twitter and up popped the famous finish line photo of that Mapei 1-2-3 victory in 1996. It occurred to me that I had never actually watched that race, so I quickly fired up YouTube to fill my vacant Sunday with a trawl through some of the great editions of the past, starting with that Mapei triple.

‘Thank you for joining us,’ – ‘then leave the old video recorder on.’ .

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