'I didn't even think I was going to make the team': Silvan Dillier content despite missing out to 'best rider of our era' at Paris-Roubaix

Last-minute call up takes surprise Roubaix second place

Silvan Dillier was content with finishing second behind world champion Peter Sagan

(Image credit: Yuzuru Sunada)

What could Swiss champion Silvan Dillier (Ag2r La Mondiale) complain about when finishing second to Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) in Paris-Roubaix? After all, he didn't even think he would be on Ag2r La Mondiale's seven-team for the race and he lost to three-time world champion Sagan, "the best rider of our era."

Dillier rode in the escape the entire day and then, when his companions faded, stuck with the attacking Sagan all the way to the velodrome.

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