Olympic Games Mens Road Race: London, 250kms
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The mens road race leaves London via Buckingham Palace...
Peter Sagan is trusting his Slovakian mechanic to fix an issue normally eased by a Liquigas toolman...
There's relief at last for the peloton after a spectator-packed passage from London to Putney...
David Millar is already pacing Mark Cavendish into Richmond Park...
Wow - the peloton faces a public lining Richmond Park in their tens of thousands..!
Chris Horner untangles himself after hitting straw bales near Richmond...
A USA mechanic helps Taylor Phinney after a lightening wheel-change...
Cadel Evans looks the part for Australia, but has he recovered from the Tour de France..?
Jurgen Roelandts leads an escape that went away after about 25-kilometres and has gained four precious minutes...
Ian Stannard collects bottles for Team GB - there's no change in his working routine, then..?!
Stuart O'Grady leads the escape on the first clinb over Box Hill - they have a five-minute lead now..!
Team GB pass Box Hill, with views south over Surrey, cheered on by a huge and very patriotic crowd..!
Michael Rogers is trying to cross the gap on lap three, but is eventually reeled in by Team GB...
O'Grady leads the escape up the hill, not knowing if Rogers has closed the gap...
Vincenzi Nibali makes an attack now, taking Van Avermaet and Gilbert with him...
Millar chases this move down, but a few gaps have developed behind him...
Nibali has gone away again in a bigger move that will catch the original escape with a few laps remaining...
Taylor Phinney, Sylvain Chavanel and Gilbert are in the new race-leading escape - and what an escape..!
Chris Froome leads all five GB riders in their chase, but it's hard work closing the 40-seconds gap...
Luca Paolini is keeping the new escape clear for Nibali and Italy...
Tejay Van Garderen leads another counter-attack up Box Hill - he has Langeveld, Rui Costa, Gesink and Grivko with him...
Luis Leon Sanchez and Alejandro Valverde have attacked on the last climb - they'll close-in on the two groups ahead...
Michele Albasini and Alexandre Vinokourov have joined-in with Sanchez and Valverde - the race is truly on now..!
Wiggins and Froome are still riding tempo, but their faces show the strain - and that's before Fabian Cancellara attacks to catch the Albasini group..!
Right out in front, Gilbert attacks as the race leaves the hills behind...
Four Spanish cyclists lead four Swiss cyclists and Vinokourov as the gap to the escape shrinks, as planned...
Gilbert has a 20-seconds lead over the elite chasing group as the race turns towards London with 40-kilometres to go...
Albasini leads his Swiss teamates who lead Spain in a group that will gobble Gilbert up very shortly...
Stannard is at his limits as Team GB tries to close what is now a 50-seconds gap...
The 32-rider escape is led by Van Garderen in a move so good for his teamate Phinney...
German and Austrian cyclists help GB chase with 20-kilometres to go, but it could be too late now...
Wiggins and Froome are doing their very best to close the gap, but both men will concede defeat and drop off this group soon...
Lars Peter Nordhaug attacks the escape in Richmond Park, but he won't stay away...
Alexandre Vinokourov wins the Mens Olympic Road Race after breaking away and then beating Rigoberto Uran..!
Alexandre Vinokourov poses with Rigoberto Uran and 3rd-placed Alexander Kristoff in London
