Good morning and welcome to live coverage of the 115th edition of Paris-Roubaix: the Hell of the North, the Queen of the Classics, the brutal dusty/muddy one with the cobbles where everyone falls off or collides with spectators... call it what you want, this is the big one, and the third monument of the season.

Paris - Roubaix Men

Men | 09.04.2017

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ByThe Editorial Team

Updated 09/04/2017 at 15:42 GMT

90km

Well, that was over fast and without any calamity - perhaps because of the weather and the fact that the pack was already very streamlined entering the Arenberg.

92.5km

The crowds are four deep here on the Arenberg but the riders pass through without any drama... they all grab fresh bidons after the leave the cobbles, trailing the two leaders - Vandenbergh and Walleys - by 20 seconds.

94km

Matteo Trentin sets the tempo for Quick-Step on the Arenberg with Peter Sagan, the world champion, right on his wheel. Delage has been dropped by the leaders and will be the first to be caught.

95km

Here it is: Hell has arrived with the Arenberg trench... It's the infamous sector 19 | 2 400 m | ***** | Trouee d'Arenberg | 95.5 km to go.

96km

Van Avermaet is still 25 seconds off the back of the main pack and he'll need to move up ahead of the Arenberg or risks being distanced once again. The three leaders - Vandenbergh, Wallays and Delage - have 30 seconds to play with.

97km

Flat tyre for Alexander Kristoff of Katusha - a terrible setback for the Norwegian.

98km

The main pack is just about 50-strong at the moment, with another dozen chasing back on. That crash really thinned things out ahead of the Arenberg. Van Avermaet didn't look hurt in that incident, but needed a bike change and he's 50 seconds back...

101km

Right on cue, Tom Boonen comes to the front... and he's been joined by Lars Boom of LottoNL-Jumbo. Ian Stannard was also held up in that crash, but didn't go down.

102km

CRASH! The main pack comes to a standstill and Greg van Avermaet is involved. He needs a new bike and will lose time here... big setback for the Belgian, who will have a real fight to get back ahead of the Arenberg.

103km

We're now onto sector 20 / 2.4km / **** / Haveluy-Wallers / 103.5km.

105km

Confirmation of the withdrawal of Niki Terpstra of Quick-Step Floors.

Image credit: AFP

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And here's a video of another tumble from earlier...

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RECAP: The big flashpoint today was this crash on the second sector of cobbles...

Carnage on the cobbles: Big crash in Paris-Roubaix

107km

There's been a crash on a roundabout: one riders has come down and hit the curb. More details later.

108km

Almost a nightmare for van Avermaet after BMC are caught out when the road bottlenecks and there's almost a mini pile-up in the pack. The Belgian has three teammates with him to pace him back up. The three leaders still have 50 seconds to play with.

109km

Update: Stannard, Hayman and Lampaert are back with the main pack. The first two got flat tyres and the third was involved in that big early crash.

110km

Problems for van Avermaet who needs to slip back to get an allen key from his team car and make an adjustment with his stem - perhaps needs to tighten it up after all the cobble-jangling.

111km

This video from the side of the road gives you a taste of the difficulty, speed and potential chaos out there on the cobbles.

112km

And there's our answer about Terpstra...

115km

The 2014 winner Niki Terpstra is also riding in a second peloton. The race's only Dutch winner must have had a mechanical problem earlier, or been held up by one of those early crashes.

115.5km

Now the BMC team of van Avermaet come forward to set the tempo and keep their man out of trouble. Hayman is still chasing back on after his flat.

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