Comments on: Paris – Roubaix – The Queen of the Classics http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/89/classics/paris-roubaix-the-queen-of-the-classics/ Cycling info - advice and tips Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: léo woodland http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/89/classics/paris-roubaix-the-queen-of-the-classics/comment-page-1/#comment-47524 Sun, 29 May 2011 04:46:59 +0000 http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/classics/paris-roubaix-the-queen-of-the-classics/#comment-47524 Hi

You mention that the first Paris-Roubaix was on Easter Sunday. I’m afraid it wasn’t. Easter Sunday had been two weeks earlier. It was the second P-R that was on Easter Sunday, but it was Easter that moved, not the race. The race was still on the same weekend.

It’s true that a mass was planned near the start of the first race. But it was a publicity stunt and there seems little evidence of any church objection. Why should there be? Sport in France has always been on Sundays.

The mass was cancelled because it was too early. If the church had been that keen to save souls, it would surely have gone ahead. But it didn’t. It was cancelled by the man who suggested and publicised it, Victor Breyer.

happy days

léo

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