Ghent Wevelgem (Belgium), 190kms
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Brrr... Is Tyler Farrar smiling, or are his teeth just chattering by themselves in the sub-zero temperatures in Deinze..?
BMC's Philippe Gilbert and Taylor Phinney can't resist entertaining the fans at the start...
The cyclists line-up at the new start in Gistel...and it's got even colder!
It's chaos behind as the peloton splits into five or six pieces near Ostende airport...
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Not a great time for veteran Stuart O'Grady to need a new front wheel...
25 riders in front are being chased by 50, alongside a canal parallel to the north sea coast...
Daniel Oss is again in the good move, he's driving the front group along despite Gilbert being in the third group..!
The groups have merged after 75-kilometres, and Gilbert now leads the way for BMC...
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Juan Antonio Flecha leads a new escape back into Belgium - they have almost two minutes over a chasing group...
Edvald Boasson Hagen is in the group chasing on the Kemmelberg - he's being chased by Peter Sagan...
Heinrich Haussler has created a new leading escape in the hills around the Kemmelberg - they quickly gain over one-minute...
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Flecha and Greg Van Avermaet now lead the race on the second ascent of the Kemmelberg...
Cavendish is looking frustrated and exhausted in the chasing group, over one-minute back...
Ladangnous leads Bozic, Popovych and Sagan in the escape towards Wevelgem...
Blanco leads the peloton through the arch of the Menen gate in Ypres, the gap is coming down now...
Lotto is also chasing for one of their sprinters, the gap is now less than one-minute..!
Can Haussler win the race - he started the move and wants to end it with victory, for sure..!
Sagan attacks in the last three-kilometres, just as the chasers are getting a little too close.!
Van Avermaet, Bozic and Haussler race for the podium...
Peter Sagan celebrates winning his first Classic with Bozic and Van Avermaet at the end of a very cold but very exciting day!
