Ghent Wevelgem (Belgium), 234.5kms
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Looking like a modern-day Tom Simpson, Mark Cavendish signs a fan's autograph on the way to the start...
Koen Barbe leads a nine-man escape that formed inside the first few kilometres...
Chris Sutton is next in-line for some mechanical attention...
Finally, it's the turn of Cavendish himself to get a seat-post tightened up...
There's something brewing at Green Edge - Stuart O'Grady discusses tactics with Matthew White...
With their ill-fortune from E3 Harelbeke, Philippe Gilbert and Fabian Cancellara have a lot to discuss today...
Lotto and Sky are starting to chase the escape - there's a ten-minute gap to bring down...
Cavendish is near the front of his own train, taking no chances, as Jeremy Hunt picks up the pace...
O'Grady and Green Edge have suddenly attacked on the first ascent of the Mont Cassel...
O'Grady has accelerated again, indeed his whole team are on the front into some crosswinds...
The peloton is in pieces behind Green Edge, but Cavendish is in the first group...
The escape climbs the Kemmelberg with Anders Lund and Jon Insausti at the front
Filippo POzzato leads the chase on the Kemmelberg some four minutes later, with Matthew Hayman marking him...
Insausti and Lund are out in front on the second ascent of the Kemmelberg...
Matthew Goss is near the front of the peloton as the pursuit gets harder on the Kemmelberg...
Greg Van Avermaet and Daniele Bennati are trying to join the departing ship that might win this race..!
Cavendish is digging deep to also try and join the move, but he'll miss out because of a split on the descent...
Cancellara is leading a split after the Kemmelberg - and that's the move Cavendish has missed..!
Peter Sagan and Cancellara now lead a six-man group towards Wevelgem...
A bigger group has formed around Cancellara and Sagan - with Langeveld leading for Green Edge...
Stannard is burying himself 40-seconds back, trying to get Cavendish across to the front group...
Incredibly, Lund and Inxausti are still 30-seconds ahead with 15-kilometres to go...
Luca Paolini accelerates at the front of the race - he's hoping Oscar Freire will win..!
It's a big sprint into the finish - and there's been a crash behind the leaders..!
It's Tom Boonen versus Sagan, Freire, Breschel, Boasson Hagen, Bennati and Chainel...
Tom Boonen wins the 2012 Ghent Wevelgem classic..!
More smiles from Tom Boonen who celebrates alongside Matti Breschel and Peter Sagan...
