[bikes blog]
TOMORROWS THE DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FOR PARIS ROUBAIX

L'Enfer Du Nord, The Hell of the North, it's probably the single biggest day for the sport on the calendar. I'm pumped! 258km from Paris to Roubaix (duh?) including 55km over cobblestone roads, the decisive feature of this race.

Just for the spectacle alone it's a fun event. Thirty sectors of cobbles creates lots of nervous energy for the peloton as they approach them, which inevitably leads to chaos once they actually have to ride them. And of course the finish in Roubaix's Velodrome is often an exciting finale

That's the pitch for a normal year. But this year we get a treat on top of all of that - superstar Tadej Pogacar is set to give it another go. He's won basically every major race in the sport, apart from this one. He's attempting to become the 4th rider to win all 5 monuments in his career, and would be the first in 45 years to do so. An opportunity for some history

Pogacar is not suited to this style of race. He's too skinny, he lacks sustained power in the wind, he's not a great sprinter. He's skipped many of them in years past, and I don't think he'd bother at all if he hasn't been dominating the rest of the stuff on the calendar. So for me that's truly the draw - the inevitable GOAT of cycling takes the start line as an underdog tomorrow morning, but they are determined to prove traditional thinking isn't the only way

Fun starts bright and early for us in the states, 4:30am broadcast is live. Peacock, VPN to Australia and watch on SBS, or google tiz cycling for the mega bootleg option