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  "textContent": "Paris-Roubaix has always stood apart. Even in a sport built on hardship, it developed into something more severe, more elemental and more mythic than almost any other race on the calendar. The men’s race is now one of cycling’s five Monuments, but that status was not handed to it because of age alone. It earned […]\n\nThe post A brief history of the men’s Paris-Roubaix, from the early years to the modern day appeared first on ProCyclingUK.",
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