Cycling: POGACAR in identifying this Monday in Arenberg hole, before playing Paris-Roubaix?

Will we see Tadej Pogacar on the cobblestones of northern hell in April? The question now burns the lips of all cycling lovers. The Slovenian champion, in fact, published a video on Monday where we see him rolling, all dressed in black, in the famous hole of Arenberg, the legendary paved sector of Paris-Roubaix.

“Guess the place,” wrote ‘Pogi’ on his Instagram account. His partner Tim Wellens played the directors for the occasion. The publication of this video seems to have delighted Mathieu van der Poel who liked his message on Instagram. The Dutchman became the first runner since Tom Boonen in 2008 and 2009 to sign two consecutive victories on the classic last year (2023 and 2024).

A video of a few seconds, the perfect teaser of a blockbuster, which suddenly relaunches speculation as to a possible first participation in Paris-Roubaix, whose 122nd edition will take place on Sunday April 13. However, this race was not on the program of the year unveiled by the interested party in December.

The triple winner of the Tour de France has never put its wheels in the race on the classic paved and has always indicated that this challenge is reserved for later in his career. But registering her name in the queen’s list of classics could arrive faster than expected and would make him enter a little more into the legend of cycling.

At this stage, and according to the program he had indicated, Pogacar, 26, is to make his start to the season from Monday, February 17, the UAE round before continuing with the Strade Bianche and Milan-Sanremo and then several classics Belgian, starting with the E3 Grand Prix, Gand-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders which he also recognized this weekend.