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Cyclists have voiced mixed feelings about a chicane designed to reduce speed ahead of a treacherous cobblestone section at Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix race, at a time when crashes have made more headlines than race results. Instead of heading into the feared Arenberg Forest at a high pace, the new section features a sharp right turn, followed by a full u-turn and another right turn to slow the riders down. “Is this a joke?” last year’s winner Mathieu van der Poel said on X, formerly Twitter. American Matteo Jorgensen had a different view, posting a video of Australian Mitchell Docker crashing heavi…

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