VIDEO: Paris-Roubaix brings out the goats to clean up Trouée d'Arenberg
CyclingTuesday, 02 April 2024 at 13:10
Paris-Roubaix is an unique race in the cycling calendar and it also has unique traditions in the days leading up to it. This morning it weren't the riders that were present in the most famous of cobbled sectors, but instead a group of goats was brought onto the Trouée d'Arenberg.
This isn't unusual though, every year race organizers bring in a truckload of goats onto the five-star sector, so that they eat away much of the grass that grows within the cobblestones. A particularly unusual method but one that continues to be followed until this day, it always gives space to interesting footage such as that captured by Eurosport's Anders Mielke this morning:
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what a cool tradition!!!😃
Not only cool, efficient and sustainable.
In France it is now illegal to use herbicides in public spaces (just as well as it runs off into rivers and the water supply), so there wouldn’t be many other options, a mower isn’t practical on cobbles and scraping manually … I know a lot of people volonteer for race organisers but somehow, I don’t think they’d find many for that.
This is win-win, you can’t even claim the animals are being exploited.