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The First of the First PR21-1-
It was an extra year in coming, but come it did. Today was the very first time that the pro women took on the fabled “Hell of the North,” Paris Roubaix. Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo) attacked on the very first section of pave (cobblestones). By the time she came of the Section 12, the Auchy a Bersee paves, she had built up another two minutes on the large group of chasers behind her. As the riders come off a section of the cobbles, there are their soigneurs lined along the smoother pavement ready to hand them a bottle, a gel, or in needed a wheel or a bike change. The race gets so strung out, that getting help from the following team cars is near impossible.