News

With Paris-Roubaix, ignorance is almost bliss
All the riders on the Israel-Premier Tech team bus started to laugh at Riley Pickrell. The Victoria native was looking forward to heading back to his home base in Girona after spending two and a half weeks in the Flanders region. He had had a block of racing that began in mid-March with Classic Brugge-De Panne and was supposed to finish with Scheldeprijs. (He also raced opening weekend in late February.) After what Pickrell thought was his last race, team director René Andrle told the rider that he’d have . . .