71st Gent-Wevelgem - ProT

Belgium, April 8, 2009

Photography

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• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) took the win ahead of Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas) in Wevelgem.
• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) powers through the final kilometres of a wet and cold Gent-Wevelgem.
• The final podium: Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas), Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia) and Matthew Goss (Saxo Bank).
• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) gets to experience the champagne on the podium of a Classic.

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• The peloton splits.
• Winds split the group in Gent-Wevelgem.
• Two Garmin riders crash, Michael Friedman and Julian Dean.
• Julian Dean (Garmin-Slipstream) helped.
• Julian Dean (Garmin-Slipstream) on the ground after the crash.
• Julian Dean (Garmin-Slipstream) has help for his left knee.
• Julian Dean (Garmin-Slipstream)
• A Katusha rider on the cobbles.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) was in the Gent-Wevelgem escape prior to flat tyres.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step)
• Robbie McEwen (Katusha) in the Gent-Wevelgem escape.
• Danilo Napolitano (Katusha) made the 33-man escape.
• The peloton in Gent-Wevelgem.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) waits for a wheel change.
• Matthew Goss (Saxo Bank) over Mathew Hayman (Rabobank) for third and fourth.
• Matthew Goss (Saxo Bank) on the podium.
• Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas)
• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad)
• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) tops the Gent-Wevelgem podium with Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas) and Matthew Goss (Saxo Bank), l & r.

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• When Boasson Hagen went, Kuschynski had no answer.
• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) takes the win.
• The final podium: Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas), Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia) and Matthew Goss (Saxo Bank).
• George Hincapie (Columbia Highroad) bides his time in the chasing group.
• Boasson Hagen makes his move on the Kemmelberg in pursuit of the Liquigas leader.
• Maarten Wynants (Quick Step) takes the lead of the peloton on the Kemmelberg.
• Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) in the lead with Kuschynski in the final kilometres.
• Bernhard Eisel leads Mark Cavendish (Columbia-Highroad) in the peloton at Gent-Wevelgem.
• The Quick Step team chasing to no avail after the peloton split.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) had no luck and double-flatted out of the break.

Images by Tim Van Wichelen/www.CyclingView.be

• Markus Burghardt sets the tempo on the first trip up the Kemmelberg
• Neo-pro Klaas Lodewyck was in the breakaway with 40 other riders.
• Boonen and Cavendish were releaged to the peloton
• Kuschynski goes on the attack on the second trip up the Kemmel.
• Boasson Hagen makes his jump to Kuschynski
• Mathew Hayman (Rabobank) made the front group.
• Robbie McEwen bridged up solo to the front group.
• Rabobank's Tom Leezer had a great ride in the break.
• Again no luck for Fabian Cancellara. After a broken chain in the Ronde van Vlaanderen, he had a flat tire in Gent-Wevelgem.
• Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) looking pretty miserable.