Shane Archbold at the 2015 Paris-Roubaix finish
Second to last and over 34 minutes behind the winner John Degenkolb, Shane Archbold battled through to the finish of the 2015 Paris-Roubaix despite crashing head first in the Arenberg Forest.
The Kiwi on Bora-Argon 18 suffered a front wheel puncture in the most notorious and difficult of the 27 cobbled sectors in the Hell of the North, causing him to lose control and land on his face and wrist on the moist stones.
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