VIDEO: Paris-Roubaix brings out the goats to clean up Trouée d'Arenberg

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: