The approach of the formidable Trouée d’Arenberg, a strategic paved sector of Paris-Roubaix, will be changed this year to better preserve the safety of runners, the organizers announced on Wednesday 5 February. Last year, when the peloton appeared in front of the northern hell traumatized by several serious falls the previous days, ASO had changed the last meters before the gap in disaster, by installing a provisional chicane to brake the runners. The 122nd edition of the Queen of Classics will take place on Sunday, April 13. “We were able to find an alternative that makes it possible to slow down the peloton in a more fluid way, a small hook that runs along the mining site of Arenberg,” explains the director of the race Thierry Gouvenou. “With this trick, there will be four turns at right angles in the kilometer preceding the hole,” he said. Foresting path classified as heritage, the Arenberg hole, 2,300 meters long, presents particularly disjoined cobblestones and gives rise to falls every year. Especially since the runners tackled it until last year at more than 60 km/h after a long, all-right in the descending false flat.
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Cycling: on Paris-Roubaix, the Arenberg hole approach modified for security reasons
