Mudfest 2021
Paris-Roubaix 2021 turned out a true mudfest. What is already a race of luck, became a race of the luckiest. As much as I enjoy the Paris-Roubaix scenes, I don’t consider Paris-Roubaix a fair race. It is spectacle where it is not necessarily the strongest who wins. It is the strongest-luckiest who wins. Today, Sonny Cobrelli was the luckiest and baddest bastard of them all. He didn’t steal the victory.
Yves Lampaert wasn’t as lucky. He came in 5th after he had suffered 3 punctures. When Johan Musseeuw came in second after Servais Knapen in 2001, he did so after 5 punctures. Five! Hard to call it a fair race.
It was great listening to the live radio coverage, while I was out on the gravel paths on my bike. I didn’t do 163 miles as the riders in the hell of the North. I did a mere 33 miles this morning.
