Kim Heiduk and Filippo Ganna led the INEOS Grenadiers home on a memorable and demanding day at Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n
Once again The Hell of the North proved to be an incredible challenge for both riders and equipment, with a host of contenders all encountering issues across the 258.3 kilometres.<\/p>\n
Ganna put in a committed ride but suffered a pair of punctures at key points during the race. The Italian had worked hard to bridge back to a promising position as he returned to the lead group following the Arenberg sector. Sadly as soon as he regained contact, a puncture with 82km to go distanced him once more.<\/p>\n
Ben Turner and Heiduk worked hard to help the subsequent chase group regain momentum, with a tantalising gap of around a minute to close on the leaders. However Ganna would puncture again and crash with 50km to go \u2013 taking him out of contention for a top result. In the end Heiduk would lead the team home in 21st place, with Ganna crossing the line in 25th.<\/p>\n
The Monument proved to be a box office spectacle, with Wout Van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike) besting Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates \u2013 XRG) in a two-up final sprint.<\/p>\n
Earlier both Turner and Josh Tarling were caught up in a crash whilst in the lead split in the main peloton. Turner was able to chase back by the end of sector 23 to ensure Ganna had support, including a huge turn heading into the race\u2019s final phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Heiduk and Filippo Ganna led the INEOS Grenadiers home on a memorable and demanding day at Paris-Roubaix.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-527758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}