Paris-Roubaix

Guesdon 'had to finish'; Meares confident heading into Olympics; Ballan and Turgot agree Boonen was too strong; Tepstra: 'The next segment came too early'

An empty, emotional defending Roubaix champ says he just didn't have it on the day of his defense

Flecha thrilled with top-10 result after broken hand, but strongest team in the chase fell flat in Roubaix

'King of the Classics,' Sean Kelly, measures Tommeke after historic run through the cobbled classics

The faces of Roubaix, through the lens of Mark Johnson

Team chairman Doug Ellis bullish on Belgian's Roubaix title defense

Farnese Vini director looks to the sky with disappointment

Ballan emerges to save the day for star-packed super team

Paris-Roubaix 2012, through the lens of Graham Watson

Pozzato, Bennati among 83 riders not finishing the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

Frenchman won the race in 1997 and retired in the infield 15 years later

The sights of Paris-Roubaix 2012, from one of the GreenEdge team cars

1. Tom Boonen, Omega Pharma-Quick Step in 5:55:22 2. Sébastien Turgot, Team Europcar at 1:39 3. Alessandro Ballan, Bmc Racing Team at 1:39 4. Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni, Sky Procycling at 1:39 5. Niki Terpstra, Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 1:39

Choosing wheels, tires, pressures and sealant for Paris-Roubaix is contentious business

Tommeke ties De Vlaeminck's all-time wins record with brash solo effort

Images from the start of the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

In an exclusive video interview from BrakeThrough Media, John Degenkolb talks about the confidence and pressure at Argos-Shimano on the eve of the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

Omega Pharma-Quick Step and Team Sky previewed the Paris-Roubaix parcours a day after their competitors in 2012

In an exclusive video from BrakeThrough Media, Taylor Phinney discusses the leadership for his BMC Racing team and putting his own ambitions aside in his first professional Paris-Roubaix

In an exclusive video interview with VeloNews, Filippo Pozzato says, "You must go when it's 'go time'" at the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

Nick Legan details Tom Boonen's new Specialized Roubaix for the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

Hincapie and Geusdon can set a new longetivity record with finishes in Roubaix on Sunday

The Mavic neutral support crew will run four motorbikes on the course at the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

The Roubaix Velodrome prepares for the arrival of Paris-Roubaix on Sunday

White's plan is to make it through the Arenberg Forest, then assess the team's chances

In this exclusive video from BrakeThrough Media, the top teams of the peloton preview the 2012 Paris-Roubaix route

Previous winner Stuart O'Grady will lead GreenEdge aboard a Scott CR1 at the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

Pozzoto has been fighting back since he broke his collarbone in the Tour of Qatar in February.

Taylor Phinney won Paris-Roubaix twice as a U23 rider

Hollywood meets hardman as Saved By The Bell star visits Garmin ahead of Paris-Roubaix

Tommeke says Omega Pharma has to make its own race on Sunday

The 2011 winner is feeling surprisingly little pressure as he prepares for Sunday’s “Hell of the North”

Garmin-Barracuda and GreenEdge riders were among those taking a final look at the 2012 Paris-Roubaix parcours on Friday

Vacansoleil leader is second team rider to scratch in run-up to the “Queen of the Classics”

In an exclusive video from BrakeThrough Media, defending champion Johan Vansummeren and Garmin-Barracuda recon the 2012 Paris-Roubaix route and talk about the "easiest race." Vansummeren says, "you just ride hard and don't have a flat tire."

From the favorites talking about their chances to race maps and start lists, it's all here for "The Hell of the North"

Embattled Italian aiming to pay back BMC Racing for three tough years with Roubaix win

Stannard says he doesn’t remember much from the winning breakaway at the miserable 2010 Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

Tech editor Nick Legan looks at Edvald Boasson Hagen's 2012 Paris-Roubaix bike, and the modified Team Sky Jaguars

GF01 marks Swiss builder's entry to the relaxed geometry race bike market

Pino Cerami is surprised by Boonen's return to the top; Niki Terpstra welcomes rainy Roubaix; Wouter Mol out four weeks with a broken collarbone

Daniele Bennati says the Cancellara's injury has damaged the motivation for RadioShack-Nissan at Paris-Roubaix

Boonen: 2005 Flanders victory is 'still the best;' De Vlaeminck welcomes another 4-time Roubaix winner

Defending champ will be on modified R-series frame to allow more clearance

In this exclusive video Farrar, Vanmarcke and Vaughters talk about a disappointing Tour of Flanders and look ahead to Paris-Roubaix.

Big Swiss' absence made for a painful Flanders finale and changed how Roubaix will unfold

Team brass second guesses Pozzato's Flanders tactic, looks ahead to Roubaix

The Swiss champ undergoes surgery to repair his thrice-broken collarbone

Without team leader Fabian Cancellara, RadioShack-Nissan is looking for Plan B

Previous winners of Paris-Roubaix

Preliminary startlist for the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

King of the Classics gives his point of view on today's riders, picks winners through Liège

Former Flanders, Roubaix champ is making the right moves when it counts

Organizers today announced the 25 teams for the 2012 Paris-Roubaix

Hincapie seems to have thrown in the towel on his own dreams of winning the Hell of the North

"The night before the race, around midnight, I told my father, 'I will be close.' I knew I was good."

VILT, Netherlands (VN) – Last week big Swiss Grégory Rast earned the most important result of his career at Paris-Roubaix. On Sunday the RadioShack classics man was headed for a six-week vacation after stepping off the Amstel Gold Race course at the end of the first lap.

Stuart O’Grady (Leopard-Trek) always talks from the heart, but nothing gets his heart racing more than Paris-Roubaix. The 37-year-old Aussie won the race in 2007, but last Sunday, he didn’t make the time cut. O’Grady went down swinging, doing what he could do to help teammate Fabian Cancellara before a series of mishaps derailed his own chances.

Stuart O’Grady (Leopard-Trek) is steaming mad that he and nine others who crossed the finish line Sunday in Paris-Roubaix after suffering through what he described as “true hell” were disqualified for finishing beyond the time limit.

Back home after Roubaix, it’s time to look through photos from the weekend.

Depending on whose viewpoint you want to believe, the Garmin-Cervélo team was either (1) totally brilliant or (2) toxically negative.

ROUBAIX, France (VN) — Jonathan Vaughters finally landed a big fish. And it doesn't get any bigger than Paris-Roubaix.

ROUBAIX, France (VN) — David Veilleux (Europcar) made the most of his Paris-Roubaix debut with an impressive top-25 finish after riding in the day's main breakaway in Sunday's battle across the cobbles.

VeloNews editor in chief Ben Delaney catches the action in the fabled forest as the fans grill, chill and thrill.

“Honestly, I enjoyed myself today,” said U.S> national champion Ben King. “I’ve never done anything like it before. It was unbelievable.”

Supporting a team at Paris-Roubaix is a tough hustle. VeloNews hitched a ride in a Garmin team car to find out just how tough.

What a difference a year makes: A DNF at Paris-Roubaix in 2010, Johan Van Summeren wins the race in 2011 with a well-timed solo break.

The Hell of the North lived up to its name for Quick Step as three-time winner Tom Boonen crashed out and Tour of Flanders runner-up Sylvain Chavanel could only muster 38th.

Former Paris-Roubaix winner Stuart O'Grady was among a handful of riders who survived the cobbles to cross the line in the velodrome only to have their results erased because they were beyond the time limit.

ROUBAIX, France (VN) ─ Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) went down swinging at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, salvaging an impressive second place that Leopard-Trek manager Brian Nygaard called "heroic" when it seemed much of the peloton was racing against him.

Results for the 2011 Paris-Roubaix

Johan Van Summeren salvaged Garmin-Cervélo's classics season with a brilliant victory at Paris-Roubaix on Sunday.

Former junior Paris-Roubaix winner Geraint Thomas hopes for big things from the real deal.

Defending champion Fabian Cancellara "has shown the form" to go for the win, "but if he gives me the green light, I'm ready to go," says Stuart O'Grady.

Matthew Goss won't be satisfied with anything less than a top-10 finish in Paris-Roubaix.

Saxo Bank-Sungard taps David Tanner to replaced injured teammate Michael Morkov in Paris-Roubaix.

Bad blood between Tom Boonen and Sebastian Chavanel is a fabrication of an overly speculative media, Chavanel said Friday. Chavanel, Boonen and their Quick Step director Wilfred Peters all said that they raced the Tour of Flanders with solid tactics, and any talk of bitterness that Boonen helped chase down Chavanel was nonsense.