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Losing Ground PR25-14
I confess that I was surprised that Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) wasn't able to pull back the twenty seconds he lost on pave sector 9. Admittedly, he was chasing the two-time winner of Paris Roubaix, Mathieu van der Poel. Both are known for winning races with long solo breakaways. Apparently the crash took the spirit out of the World Champion or the constant pounding of the cobbles. He did hold off the chasers to take second place in Roubaix, not a bad debut appearance at the Hell of the North.