Cycling: Paris-Roubaix Sun 11 April

[ogii55]

One of the most spectacular races in the world will take place today. Will be showed live on Eurosport. Short Preview The race is knows as "The Hell of the North" or "The queen of classics". It's almost 260 km and passed throught 50 km of cobblestones, which caused a lot of crashes. Two are the main favorits not only this year, but last few years. Tom Boonen will search his forth win here (won last year), while Fabian Cancelara will try to capitalize on his great form (won another very tough race last Sunday Tour of Flanders, where Boonen finished second). There is no doubt that those two are the best players and the bookies knows it very well. But both of them are already used some of their stamina in earlier races. Few days ago Boonen crashed in midweek race Scheldeprijs, where Cancelara did not finished (probably to save some power for today;s race). However there are two other very experienced cyclists, who may cause big upset. First of them is long time Lance Armstrong best helper in Tour de France George Hincapy. He showed good form in Tour de Flanders, finishing sixth and another one day classic this season Gent-Wevelgem finishing forth. The American will have strong support from his team, where we may see two very big names - Alessandro Ballan and Marcus Burghardt. The best odds for Hincapy are at Will Hill for Place - 7.00. 29.00 for winner also could be found in the bookies. My main pick for the race is Belgian master of Spring Classics Leif Hoste. I followed this guy for some seasons and he is one of the most unlucky cyclist. Finished three times second on Tour of Flanders. In 2004 Paris Robaix he was looking as winner, when a spectator put his flag staff into the wheel.Two years later Hoste was second, but latter was disqualified. Now Leif will be leader of his team Omega-Pharma Lotto (previously Davitamon-Lotto), after the other strong rider Philip Gilbert finished third in Flanders will not participate. Hoste showed good form in Flanders finishing with main bunch, just after the break ups and i hope this served for him as good preparation for Paris-Roubaix. Bets: Leif Hoste Top 3 - 12.00 Sportingbet Leif Hoste win - 81.00 Bet365

[jovinco]

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