Tour de France: Stage 9 highlights - Video

Understandibly so, John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) was pretty excited to win after a long drought

Understandibly so, John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) was pretty excited to win after a long drought (Image credit: Getty Images)

The much anticipated cobbled stage of the Tour de France to Roubaix saw a former Paris-Roubaix champion John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) silence the critics who had written him off for good.

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