Il Lombardia
So it's goodbye from Ryder Hesjedal and goodbye from Frank Schleck - two great careers end in Lombardia today..!
The peloton slips away from the historical centre of Como...
Vegard Laengen is one of many cyclists trying to escape in the first kilometres...
Sonny Colbrelli has made a big attack 40-kilometres into the race...
Colbrelli has been joined by Zdenek Stybar, but the peloton will pull them back...
The peloton is all together as it climbs the Madonna del Ghisallo...
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Stefan Denifl has started a new escape on the Ghisallo - and it seems to have succeeded..!
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Denifl leads the escape past the Ghisallo chapel with a one-minute lead...
Fabio Aru is Italy's favourite for Lombardia, but a few foreigners might yet spoil his plans...
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Greg Van Avermaet and Jasper Stuyven have the time to do a pre-worlds chat as the peloton sits up for a while...
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"Last rice cake of my career" - Hesjedal eats a snack while chatting with ex-teamate Tom-Jelte Slagter...
The peloton squeezes its way up the Colle Brianza, almost 100-kilometres into the stage...
Damiano Caruso is leading the escape with a six-minute lead as it climbs the Valico di Valcava...
Moreno Moser has been chasing for a while now, and the gap is coming slowly down...
FDJ has suddenly started to chase hard up the Valcava, reducing the gap some more...
Nicholas Roche is looking a little un-comfortable with the pace..!
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Steve Morabito is the FDJ man doing the hard turns, but for who..?
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Philippe Gilbert is ahead of the peloton on the Valcava descent, trying to get a counter-attack going...
Dayer Quintana is working away for Movistar on the new Sant' Antonio Abbandonato ascent...
Jan Bakelandts is the man they're chasing - the Belgian has attacked earlier and is going after the four-man escape...
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Mikel Cherel has dropped out of the escape and now paces Bakelants away from the chasers...
Caruso is still four minutes in front with Rudy Molard, but he's about to drop the Cofidis rider...
Bakelants has caught Molard on the Abbandonato, but they'll soon be re-caught by the chasers...
Green Edge's Carlos Verona surges to the front on the Miraglo San Salvatore, but Caruso is still clear...
Matvey Mamykin makes an atatck on the San Salvatore climb...
Robert Gesink leads the subsequent escape with Caruso now in his sights...
Esteban Chaves is attacking the descent to get across to Gesink's lead-group...
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Rigoberto Uran is joining Chaves - and both men will join the leaders soon..!
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Peter Kennaugh is the sole Sky rider in contention as he chases the new lead group...
Diego Rosa is dragging an elite group along between climbs - teamate Aru is somewhere close-by...
David de la Cruz is the man leading Pierre Latour and Molard as they chase Caruso and try to stay away from Aru's chasers...
Caruso is about to be caught, but it's been a great day out for the BMC Italian...
It's a fourteen-man group that will fight out today's finale into Bergamo...
Rigoberto Uran has joined Chaves in a new attack on the slopes of Mont Selvino - Romain Bardet has also got with them...
Uran is in full flow, not asking for help and not getting much either..!
Diego Rosa is chasing hard for Aru at 35-seconds...
Rosa has suddenly attacked and is trying to bridge across on the Selvino...
Now there are four leaders - Bardet, Chaves, Uran and Rosa...
Giovanni Visconti is doing all the work for Valverde as the chasers try to close a 45-seconds gap with 15-kilometres to go...
Rosa is on the attack as Bergamo approaches - and its nasty cobbled hill..!
Rosa has run out of steam as Chaves closes in on him with three-kilometres to go.!
Chaves attacks near the summit of the final hill, but it's still a quartet that heads down into the city...
Chaves attacks again before sitting up for the inevitable sprint-finish...
Diego Rosa and Esteban Chaves are side-by-side like true sprinters - except that they're climbers!
Esteban Chaves wins Il Lombardia..!
Alejandro Valverde sprints to 6th place, 1' 24" behind Chaves...
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Esteban Chaves celebrates becoming the first non-European winner of a 'monument' Classic...