Another Sunday In Hell: The brutal race that thwarts the greats
There is very little about this race that seems to make sense.
The gruelling French farm tracks with their jagged cobblestones seem barely fit for a cow's hoof, let alone a Lycra-clad cyclists' thin tyre and ultra-light bike.
Welcome to L'Enfer du Nord - the Hell of the North - as cycling's most brutal race, Paris-Roubaix, is known.
At 260km (162 miles), it is not the longest of cycling's classics, and there are no mountains to climb. But that is not the point.
