Daniele Bennati misses Paris-Roubaix

Due to a fracture on his radius suffered during Ronde van Vlaanderen, Daniele Bennati does not participate in Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. The replacement for Daniele Bennati in the Tinkoff-Saxo line-up is Jesper Hansen. With Matti Breschel out of the race as well, Tinkoff-Saxo is now without an obvious captain in the race:

DS, Lars Michaelsen says:

“Of course this is a huge blow for us and we must now be considered as underdogs only. We had really hoped that Benna (Bennati) would be ready but it’s simply impossible to go through a cobbled race like this with a fracture,” says Michaelsen.

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