US EditionParis-Roubaix cobbles stolen from Arenberg Forest as race director slams “life-threatening” theft
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The six million cobblestones of the Paris-Roubaix are meticulously maintained and protected as cultural heritage, but even the world's most famous cobblestones have their troubles. It's not maintenance or anything else, but thieves who...
'Leave those cobblestones where they belong. This race is ruthless enough as it is' - Paris-Roubaix organisers horrified by thoughtless thieves pinching parts of the course
Race organisers highlight the dangers to riders as missing cobbles leave large holes in the already dangerous roads.
Paris-Roubaix cobbles stolen from Arenberg Forest as race director slams “life-threatening” theft
Wickedly straight, fiendishly long, and riddled with the kind of brutal pavé former Tour de France organiser Jacques Goddet described as “potholes, not cobblestones”, the Arenberg Forest, Paris-Roubaix’s first five-star sector, is difficult enough.But this year, the infamous Trouée d’Arenberg has been made even more difficult by a rather niche subsection of thieves, who have ...
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