Stannard All In On Roubaix Assault

Team Sky rider desperate to break Monument duck after string of near misses

- Paul Knott

Team Sky Classics rider Ian Stannard is willing to forego his chances of victory in minor one-day events to finally secure the Monument victory that has eluded him.

Talking to Cycling Weekly last week at the Challenge Majorca, the 30-year-old rider revealed that he is putting other races to one side as he attempts to crack the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix.

“My training has been geared around that style of racing rather than the Belgian races so I’m just trying to think about that and try and do well in it — well, better than third anyway,” Stannard said.