World Championships: Mens Road Race, 269kms
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Timmy Duggan leads the day's early escape - there are eleven of them for now...
Incredibly, Mark Cavendish has already started the chase for Great Britain - he has Dowsett and Wiggins waiting to take their turn to work...
So strong is their chase, so strong is the wind, that a split has occurred with Canadian cyclists trying to close the widening gap...
The escape arrives on the Cauberg with a five-minute lead...
Michael Matthews leads a counter-attack on the first lap - Australia is playing its first cards of the day...
Cavendish is still chasing, 100-kilometres after he started - but it's hurting him now..!
The counter-attack is led by Beppu and Scar, and it is closing in on the escape...
The Dutch and Belgian teams start to work now, GB has Steven Cummings up there and has stopped chasing...
Rigoberto Uran attacks on the cauberg with about five laps to go - why..?
Lastras and Cataldo now lead a group of 24 riders, the chasers having caught the original escape...
Germany with Johannes Frohlinger is chasing now - the gap to the escape has dropped...
Thomas Vockler and Alberto Contador have got across to the escape before it gets caught - Voeckler attacks right away...
Contador makes his own move on top of the Cauberg - but he's actually paving the way for Alejandro Valverde...
Andrew Talansky has attacked on the penultimate lap - he's chased by Ian Stannard...
Vincenzi Nibali attacks on the penultimate lap - he's trying to get rid of a few sprinters still hiding in there..!
Sammy Sanchez leads the race with half-a-lap to go - where's Valverde when you need him..?!
Nibali launches an attack on the last Cauberg climb - but he's marked by two Belgians...
Philippe Gilbert attacks 200-metres from the top of the Cauberg..!
Philippe Gilbert wins the World Championships..!
Yes, it's true - Philippe Gilbert is the new Champion of the World..!
Philippe Gilbert poses with Edvald Boasson Hagen and Alejandro Valverde in Valkenburg...
