Monday, April 10, 2006

Post-Paris-Roubaix Coverage on Eurosport

I don't check out Eurosport's fine website as often as I should. If that applies to you as well, the post-Paris-Roubaix coverage is a good place to start.

There's a scrolling feature below the story with links to other coverage. Video from the race is particularly worth seeing; it includes interview with Tom Boonen, his Quick Step team manager, and race winner Fabian Cancellara.

Here's just a little bit of what I learned:
On Boonen's failure to win a second-straight Paris-Roubaix, which would have given him back-to-back Tour of Flanders and P-R successes: "Some people seem to think Tom Boonen has no right to be tired. But there is no shame in being tired. I'm not superman."

On why he lost: "I don't want to look for any excuses, some riders were just better than me."

On the train incident (three riders ahead of Boonen were disqualified for running a train warning): "It was the job of the stewards to stop them. I also would have crossed the barrier."

On his Tour de France plans: "I had to retire from the Tour last year and it's still stuck in my throat. I now dream of winning stages and the green jersey. When I was in the velodrome at the end of the Paris-Roubaix, I was already thinking of the Tour de France."

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