62nd Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne - 1.1

Belgium, March 1, 2009

Photography

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• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) takes the sprint win in Kuurne.

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• Tom Boonen won the Kuurne race after a some hard work.
• Boonen was happy with the outcome and his sprint win.
• Everybody wanted autographs from Boonen but the one from the UCI chaperone...
• ... was the most important one.

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• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) gets it by a bike length in Kuurne.
• Boonen takes the sprint ahead of Eisel and Hunt.
• The podium in Kuurne: Bernhard Eisel, Tom Boonen and Jeremy Hunt.
• The Topsport Vlaanderen team remembers its fallen rider, Frederiek Nolf.
• Stijn Devolder has a dig.
• The beginning of the breakaway with Chavanel, Wynants, Haussler and Eisel.
• The lead group gained time once Boonen was there.
• The Topsport Vlaanderen team remembered Frederick Nolf by riding ahead of the peloton and observing a moment of silence.
• The peloton observed a moment of silence for Frederiek Nolf who passed away during the Tour of Qatar.
• Tom Boonen is congratulated by his Quick Step team.
• Boonen gets a push from his happy soigneur.

Images by Florian and Susanne Schaaf/www.cyclingpictures.de

• A Garmin-Slipstream rider attacks the peloton early.
• Jurgen Roelandts (Silence-Lotto) rides in the bunch as the race starts.
• Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) was hoping for a strong finish.
• Katusha did a lot of work in the hope of getting one of their riders home first.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) looked determined to make up for the previous day's finish.
• The riders string out over the cobbles as fans cheer them on.
• Gerald Ciolek (Team Milram) was one of just two riders from his team to make the classification.
• Rabobank had three riders up front near the finish, but only Tom Leezer could hold in to the finish.
• Fans closed in on the riders as the riders closed in on the finish.
• Karsten Kroon (Team Saxo Bank) corners behind Tom Boonen (Quick Step).
• Jeremy Hunt (Cervelo Test Team) managed to stay with the leaders to take third place.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) on his way to his first win of spring.

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• Leif Hoste (Silence-Lotto) before the start.
• Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) waits for the event to start.
• Danilo Napolitano (Katusha) gets ready before the start.
• Geoffroy Lequatre (Agritubel) and Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) went on to finish inside the top 10.
• Sergey Ivanov (Katusha) was at the head of the race at the top of Kwarémont.
• Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step), Tom Boonen (Quick Step) and Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) ide just behind the lead group after Kwarémont.
• Tom Boonen (Quick Step) looked at ease on his teammates wheel just after the Kwarémont.
• Leif Hoste (Silence-Lotto) wasn't at the front of the race after Kwarémont.
• Thomas Voeckler (BBox-Bouygues Telecom) after Kwarémont.
• Nick Nuyens (Rabobank) finished in eighth place.
• Sergey Ivanov (Katyusha) was at the front as the race reached the top of Trieu.