London & Surrey Cycle Classic (2012 Olympic Test Event)

So, finally...Heinrich Haussler is excited about starting his first-ever race in Australia colours...

GARMIN

The modest London & Surrey Cycle Classic race lines up in the Mall for the 2012 Olympic test event...

SCENERYLONDON

The peloton rolls past Buckingham Palace at the start of a 140-kilometre day...

SCENERYLONDON

Wellington Arch awaits the race at the top of Constitution Hill...

SCENERYLONDON

Will the peloton please slow down outside Harrods for its richer members to do a bit of shopping..?!

SCENERYLONDON

Cleberson Weber leads the day's hopeful escape into Richmond Park - now watch out for the deer..!

The peloton is seven minutes down as it passes the side entrance to Hampton Court Palace...

SCENERYLONDON

Tom MUrray is pushing the escape through the Surrey lanes towards Guildford - and their lead is growing..!

ESCAPESIGMA

Is Tom Boonen in with a chance of winning today..?

Matthew Goss looks to be Austrialia's best bet in the expected sprint...

AUSTRALIA

Mark Cavendish is the race favourite of course - and he has everyone else on his wheel now..!

SKYCAVENDISH

Kristian House leads the escape up Staple Hill, they now lead by almost nine minutes...

ESCAPERAPHA

Belgium leads the first serious chasing up this same hill..

CHASE

Box Hill greets a compact peloton - but where are all the spectators..?!

SCENERY

3,000 fenced-in fans greet the race with the England and GB teams guarding the peloton...

FANSCUMMINGS

"How many beers..?!" The two laps of Box Hill don't seem to have hurt Julian Dean and Stuart O'Grady much...

FRIENDS

Jurgen Van de Walle is chasing now, all the way up the highway towards London...

CHASE

Jeremy Hunt is getting his water bottles of Team Sky - but he's racing today for England..!

SKY

House and Holohan have stayed away into the outskirts of London, just 20-kilometres remain and they have one minute still...

ESCAPERAPHA

A Livestrong-Trek rider is setting a ferocious pace in the chase...

CHASE

Haussler is earning brownie points by collecting water bottles for his Australia teamates...

GARMIN

Thousands of fans welcome the race back into Richmond Park with 15-kilometres to go...

FANS

Tyler Farrar has had a flat tyre, a young teamate cannot help him change it and vital time is lost..!

MECHANICAL

Farrar has a face like thunder as he finally gets going again - he'll get back but be caught in a crash with three-kilometres to go..!

MECHANICAL

A familiar scene but in a different city and in different colours - Mark Cavendish sprints it out with Sacha Modolo in front of Buckingham Palace...

SKYCAVENDISH

Job done - Mark Cavendish wins the Olympic test event, twelve months before the real thing and, maybe, real Gold...

SKYCAVENDISH