No one has won Paris-Roubaix, a week after the Tour of Flanders, for 11 years. Fabian Cancellara was the last, in 2013, to do so.

The Swiss, the latest, believes that Mathieu van der Poel's victory this Sunday, April 7 after a solitary 60-kilometer raid, is perhaps even more beautiful than his own performance. “He’s the Pelé of cycling’: Cancell Lara praises Van Der Poel after his legendary double.