Rider who was locked out of velodrome last year finishes top-10 in 2019 Paris-Roubaix

The perseverance of one Pro Continental rider saw him finish with the best

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A rider who was locked out of the velodrome in last year’s edition of Paris-Roubaix returned to the race and secured a phenomenal top-10 finish in 2019.

Evaldas Šiškevičius, a Lithuanian with the Delko Marseille Provence squad, was a major talking point after the 2018 edition of the ‘Hell of the North’, when he finished outside the time limit and found the gates of the finishing track were locked.

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