Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, 198kms (Belgium)

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Silvan Dillier leads the early escape after a furious 30-minutes...

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Greg Van Avermaet needs a wheel change while his teamate drags the escape clear...

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IAM chases as soon as the gap grows to four minutes...

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Gert Joeaar picks up the initiative for Cofidis in the escape...

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The peloton is enjoying spring-like conditions as far as the scenery goes...

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Robert Wagner leads Belkin into a crosswind section of the race, the peloton starts to shred itself...

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The chiefs of the peloton slow down after a crash split the peloton in half...

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Dillier looks the strongest in the escape, but their lead is less than three minutes...

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Nikolas Maes leads a counter-attack on the Oude Kruisberg with Tom Boonen in 3rd wheel..

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The peloton re-groups on the Cote de Trieu...

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Vladimir Isaichev leads the escape across the cobblestones of the Oude Kwaremont...

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Stijn Vandenburgh accelerates across the Kwaremont, stringing the peloton into a long line behind him...

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Sep Van Marcke leads Boonen as a lead escape forms around them...

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Van Avermaet is feeling it from yesterday's race - he cannot make it to the lead group..!

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Boonen is hard at work taking his Omega-dominant escape towards Kuurne...

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Ian Stannard is trying to close the gap on the Tiegemberg...

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Christian Knees leada a desperate chase by Sky as the gap to Boonen becomes one minute...

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Johan Van Summeren is a lone operator in the Omega-Belkin escape..

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Katusha chases instead of Sky, but the gap is not coming down..

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Van Marcke does his job in the escape, he has two other Belkin teamates to consider too...

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It's a close-finish between Boonen and Hofland..!

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Yes - Tom Boonen wins Kuurne-Brussels_Kuurne from Moreno Hofland..!

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Tom Boonen is sandwiched between Van Marcke and Hofland, but he's a very happy man today..!

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