Tom Pidcock is the surprise guest of this Paris-Roubaix 2024. The British cyclist announced this Saturday noon that he was going to take part in what he considers to be his “favorite race” The 24-year-old has never started the Queen of the Elite Classics before.

He clearly arrives as an outsider in a race which seems promised to Mathieu Van der Poel, one of his rivals on the road as well as in cyclo-cross.