Team dsm-firmenich PostNL coach Pim Ligthart: “Paris-Roubaix, also known as the ‘Hell of the North,’ will be the third Monument of the season and the final cobbled classic of the year. John and Nils will be our finishers who will need to focus on being in position at the first sector and then every subsequent sector. John showed last year that he can compete in this spectacular race, and Nils has had a solid classics campaign so far. With this in mind, we are confident that we will be in the mix this year as well.”