ASO ⛎confirms Paris-Roubaix will be raced over in🔯famous pavé
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The cobblestones of the Arenber♋g Forest await the peloton. (Image credit: Sirotti)
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Calm before the storm in the Arenberg Forest. (Image credit: Sirotti)
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A Mavic neutral support motorcycle heads through the Arenberᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚg Forest. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Johan Van Summeren powers his way thr𓂃ough the ⛄Arenberg forest (Image credit: Sirotti)
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Tom Boonen (Quick Step) is helped 🐠back into his bike following a punctu😼re in the Arenberg forrest (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix will definitely be raced over the infamous Arenberg cobbles in 2012, according to Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO). The news comes after it was deemed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:earlier this year that t🐟he 2.4 kilometre secℱtion of pavé have been heavily covered by moss and other plant growth making the passage unsafe for racing.
Speaking before the start of Stage 3 of Paris – Nice on Tuesday, Jean-Francois Pescheux, Paris – Roubaix sports director confirmed to news agency AFP that: "The cleaning work will🎃 be undertaken as soon as po🦂ssible."
Last week, race organisers warned 168澳洲5最新开奖结果🍸:that another change may have💞 to be made to the April 8 classic with the route taken on the CD 40, near the northern French town of Denain under threat. The road goes too close to the Valenciennes oil warehouses, a large fuel storage depot. Organisers said that rearranging the route would add too many kilometers to the ⛎race, pushing it above the 260 km allowed by the UCI.
La🍸st summer the local government banned all gatherings, demonstrations and events near the oil warehouses, including 💝sports events. Pescheux said that he hopes to be granted an exception.
"We will await the final position of🅰 the prefecture. It's not a comfortable situation two months before the race."
He sai🌜d at the CD 40 is an important passage which would be difficult to replace.
"We studied many alternatives, but the entire route would be extended 7 km. And I cannot afford it." The race is currently🐻 257.5km.
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The Trouée d'Arenberg was left out of the 2005 edition of Paris-Roubaix a🍒fter it was deemed that the pave had deteriorated beyond levels considere🌸d to be safe, after sections on top of the abandoned mines had subsided.
