Overview
- The 123rd Paris–Roubaix on Sunday has turned chaotic as a wave of punctures and bike changes hit the contenders over the 258.3 km route with 54.8 km of cobbles.
- Tadej Pogacar was forced to stop on sector 22 and took a neutral Shimano spare bike when his team car was not nearby, then clawed back more than a minute over a 23 km chase.
- Mathieu van der Poel suffered two punctures right before the Forest of Arenberg, briefly tried to take teammate Jasper Philipsen’s bike, and fell to more than two minutes behind before starting a hard pursuit.
- Filippo Ganna punctured while trying to reach the leaders, rode a bike that was not his for a spell, and later crashed at 49 km to go, losing further time.
- By the Mons-en-Pévèle sector, Pogacar and Wout van Aert were alone in front, highlighting how the race’s five‑star cobbled stretches like Arenberg, Mons-en-Pévèle, and the Carrefour de l’Arbre can decide both form and fortune.