Paris-Roubaix 2009 Live Dashboard
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Tom Boonen was the strongest and most skilled bike handler on route to his third Paris-Roubaix win.

9 Big Photos from 2009

116 Big Photos from last year's CLASSIC Paris-Roubaix

2009 Paris-Roubaix Teams

Team Rosters and ~~Withdrawals~~

News and Updates for Paris-Roubaix 2009

Boonen stays upright on his (motor)bike and solos the last 15k for his third Paris-Roubaix win

107th Paris-Roubaix Results
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step                            6.15.53 (42.343 km/h)
2 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Team Katusha                        0.47
3 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team                      1.17
4 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence-Lotto                                
5 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence-Lotto                    1.22
6 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank                        2.14
7 Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Cervelo Test Team                 3.13
8 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step                         3.15
9 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas                           5.00
10 Matti Breschel (Den) Team Saxo Bank                      5.29
11 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick Step                             
12 Andreas Klier (Ger) Cervelo Test Team                        
13 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française Des Jeux                    
14 Kévin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step                          6.15
15 Roger Hammond (GBr) Cervelo Test Team                        
16 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team Saxo Bank                       
17 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram                              
18 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Colnago        6.19
19 Jérémy Hunt (GBr) Cervelo Test Team                      6.32
20 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia - Highroad

Full Results — cyclingnews

Boonen blitzes Paris-Roubaix — velonews

Highlights and the Last Km — sporza

Hushovd and Flecha crash clips |

wide screen version — nos

Last Km (wide screen) — nos

high-res victory salute

Boonen, un tris da leggenda — gazzetta.it

Filippo Pozzato press conference audio post-race — gazzetta.it

Boonen wins third Paris-Roubaix — uk.reuters

Motorcycle runs into crowd, 10 injured — sports.yahoo

9 Big photos — sirotti

Roubaix '09: Boonen Bashes 'Em Again! — pezcyclingnews

'Hell of the North' lives up to its name for Argle Armada — slipstreamsports

Graham Watson Photos — grahamwatson

High-Quality Highlights narrated by Phil and Paul (10:47) — sbs

Pozzato applauds Boonen but slams Flecha, Flemish fans — sbs

Belgian Tom Boonen wins third gruesome Paris-Roubaix (02:00) includes crash highlights — france24

Holy Week 2009: What Did We Learn? — podiumcafe

Cyclingnews P-R Photo Index — cyclingnews

Johnny Weltz of Garmin discusses what went wrong: "if you are not in position at the Arenberg then your chances of winning are pretty much zero" — versus

George Hincapie Post-Race Interview: "I flatted at the worst possible time" — versus

Tom Boonen Post-Race Interview: "today was the hardest of the three" — versus

"I love/hate Paris-Roubaix" Versus Broadcast Lead In — versus

BMC Racing survives Roubaix debut — bikeradar

How the race was won — Cosmo Catalano

Live Coverage Updates

April 12 update: 12:35 CEST The race is well underway. Text updates are live with video to follow shortly. Working on alternative video feeds... — Steve
13:15 CEST Live video should start in 15 minutes. See localized start times below
13:48 CEST The feeds are starting to go live: Netherlands and cycling.tv only at the moment. Watch for the links to go bold in the live table just below.
14:00 CEST LIVE VIDEO below. 127k to go... enjoy... more feeds to come

A Sunday in Hell?

steephill.tv is also on Twitter with race info and video updates

April 12 update: Paris-Roubaix may be the only road bike race where most fans hope for rain. Therefore, most people will be glad to here that it's raining this morning in Paris and at the finish. Regardless of weather it stops before the race starts, the cobbles will be slick. Check back at race time for updates to your live coverage options. — Steve

Current Weather in Roubaix (Lille). France
Note: Early indications show that this site will be under extreme load during the race; therefore, many images and/or links to images may be removed once the race starts. Best to do your browsing of this site now before the race starts. — Steve

En Direct: Live Video Streaming and TV Coverage

April 12 update: A work in progress for Paris-Roubaix live and delayed coverage. Feel free to send in additional sources for live video, tv coverage or text updates/tickers as they become known. — Steve

Start Time: Sunday 10:50 AM CEST ();
Earliest live video: 1:30 PM CEST ();
See all the live video, audio and text options
Approximate Finish: 5:30 PM CEST ()

Current Situation/Live Text Updates
Team rosters with bib numbers
Current Time, Weather and Wind Direction in Roubaix, France

media source	tv or internet	comments/restrictions
	live video streaming live video streaming internet audio tv schedule (Europe)	Eurosport Live at 12:00 GMT (210 min); rebroadcast at 22:15 GMT (60 min). French only for online commentary; Internet audio hasn't worked for several weeks
	live video streaming tv schedule	France2 TV live at 1:30 PM CEST (245 min); live video streaming is likely restricted to France and other French-speaking regions.
	live video streaming live video streaming	french
	live video streaming tv schedule	Ciclismo Classiche del Nord Parigi Roubaix starts at 15:30 CET (140 min); live video streaming is restricted to Italy; there may should be other sources for RAI video at event time
	live video streaming	U.S. and Canada only; live at 8:00 ET (210 min); requires a subscription; english commentary
	live video streaming live video streaming (restricted) tv schedule	Dutch ticker with restricted NOS video; Netherlands
	live video streaming tv schedule	Flemish ticker and restricted live video starting at 13:40 CEST; Belgium/Europe restriction on video
	live video streaming tv schedule	Switzerland's SF Zwei live coverage at 14:30 CET with german commentary from Hans Jucker and Jean-Claude Leclercq
	tv schedule	SBS in Australia is live starting at 10:10PM AEST
	tv schedule	United States delayed same-day broadcast in HD starting at 5PM ET; find versus in your area
	live text updates	live text updates starting at 11:00 CEST ()
	live text updates	live at 8:00 AM ET
	steephill text updates #roubaix twitter group	short text updates from any and everyone
check back at race time for more and updated links; send a comment or a new live link

Final/Official Rosters now up

April 11 update: There were about eight rider substitutions from the provisional rosters so review the startlist again: Official rosters with bib numbers and country sort option are now up (see right).
Two ways to view the startlist:

steephill.tv is also on Twitter with race info and video updates

April 11 update: Many live video streaming options will not be known until race time; however, here are the live video and tv options that are currently known. Feel free to send in additional sources for live video, tv coverage or text updates/tickers as they become known. — Steve

The day before: pre-race training on Pavé d'Arenberg

April 11 update:


Le Trouee d'Arenberg aka the Arenberg Trench	Chris Horner said several years ago: "...they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That's Paris-Roubaix. It's that bad - it's ridiculous."	Recreational cyclists find out how horrible the ride is over the bumpy cobbles
Last year's champion and two time winner, Tom Boonen (Bel) of Quick Step testing out how the pavé d'Arenberg feels this year	Not exactly his event, but Filippo Pozzato (Ita) of Katusha has been on great form the last two weeks	Another Italian Manuel Quinziato of Liquigas is also on fine form with good showings at Tour of Flanders and Gent-Wevelgem. Here he is being interviewed by Davide Cassini of RAI Sport.
Le Carrefour de l'Arbre at km 242 is the 4th last cobble section extending for 2km and rated among the hardest. That namesake restaurant will be busy on Sunday.	The "Russian Global Cycling Project" has rolled in	Inside the Katusha team bus, Filippo Pozzato is interviewed by the Italian press including Claudio Ghisalberti of Gazzetta dello Sport (also seated)

Also see more Cobbles and Pre-race Training photos from 2008

steephill.tv is also on Twitter with race info updates

Race Previews

April 9 update:

Roubaix Preview: The Contenders — pezcyclingnews

Ticket to torture in northern France — cyclingnews

Paris-Roubaix: The Stop-Quick-Step-Movement — podiumcafe

The Arenberg Trench — podiumcafe

Paris-Roubaix: After the Trench — podiumcafe

Current Time, Weather and Wind Direction in Roubaix, France

Parijs-Roubaix 2009 — sporza.be

Hincapie Again Takes on the Cobblestones — nytimes

Paris-Roubaix 2009: The Big Preview — cyclingweekly.co.uk

L'Embarras Du Choix (Race Preview in French) — sport-net.org

April 7 update: Redux: 116 Big Photos from last year's CLASSIC Paris-Roubaix (disabled until after the race) () as a preview to this Sunday's race.

Background information

This page provides essential information and links for the third big classic of the year, the 107th Paris-Roubaix, which takes place this Sunday April 12th. This year's The Hell of the North / Queen of the Classics / La Pascale: the Easter race will feature 28 awful cobblestone sections along the 259 km course followed the traditional finish in the velodrame in Roubaix. Paris-Roubaix is one of the oldest races on the professional road cycling calendar. First run in 1896, it has been stopped only by the two world wars.

If you thought the cobblestones in last weekend's Tour of Flanders were bad listen to what Chris Horner has to say about Paris-Roubaix. "Let me tell you, though - there's a huge difference between Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. They're not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one - it's completely different . . . The best I could do would be to describe it like this - they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That's Paris-Roubaix. It's that bad - it's ridiculous."

Check out the links below for a preview. — Steve

Classic Paris-Roubaix Footage:

1985: LeMond's first P-R finish was literally a mess — cbs

1986: Sean Kelly sprints to victory; Moser's last year — cbs

1976: From the documentary 'A Sunday in Hell' | More Hell — more info

Documentaire sur Paris Roubaix partie 1 (en français)

Documentaire sur Paris Roubaix partie 2 (en français)

1994: 'Disastrous' Punctures on the Muddy Cobblestones — eurosport

1996: Mapei finishes 1-2-3 — eurosport

2001: Hincapie against four Domo Farm Frites riders (and two punctures)

2002: Cobbles Highlights — eurosport

2002: More Cobbles Highlights

2002: Johan Museeuw's hell of a finish -- solos the final 50k

2006: Highlights set to Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone'

2007: Spectator's video along the cobblestones

2007: A clip of the dry, dusty cobblestones

2007: A clip of the rough, noisy cobblestones and the tears they bring on

2007: Flecha's 2nd place joy/agony reaction was priceless — cyclingnews

2008: Conquering Roubaix Promo; Stuey interview — sbs
Road to Roubaix Trailer:

High-Quality (

) or Low-Quality (

)— masterlinkfilms

PEZ Interviews: "Road To Roubaix" Directors — pezcyclingnews

2009 Route Map

2009 Teams Announced

March 12 update: Teams Announced for Paris-Roubaix — podiumcafe

2008 Post Race Links
Tom Boonen outguns Cancellara and Ballan

The 106th Paris-Roubaix Results
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quick Step    (43.4 km/h)  5.58.42 
2 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC               0.01
3 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre                                         
4 Martijn Maaskant (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle     3.39
5 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC                  3.57
6 Leif Hoste (Bel) Silence - Lotto                                       
7 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step                3.59
8 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto       4.35
9 George Hincapie (USA) Team High Road           5.12
10 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre

Full Results — cyclingnews

Live Text Coverage — cyclingnews

Full Report — velonews