Paris-Roubaix, three teenagers at the start: Tarling rides the green wave on the pavé

Josh Tarling he is 19 years old and is slightly younger than the Spaniard Ivan Romeo and Estonian Madis Mihkels. They are the three teenagers at the start of the Paris-Roubaix, a race from other times, an anachronism alive and well, and eternal since 1896. The cycling that was merges with youth and retouches an 86-year old record. The Welsh Tarling is the youngest since the 1937 edition of the Queen of Classics, the 18th ever in an earliness classification led by the French Fernand Moulet15 years old in 1911 (and at the finish line he was thirty-fifth, one hour, 2 minutes and 50 seconds behind the winner Octave Lapizethe one who had first climbed the Tourmalet, the previous summer).