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Photo gallery: Carnage on the cobbles
Filippo Pozzato (Katusha) crashed and couldn't get a new bike because his team car had flatted.
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Maarten Neyens (Omega Pharma-Lotto) on the ground after his Paris-Roubaix crash
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Dmytro Krivtsov (Lampre-ISD) tries to get going again on the cobbles
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Medics attend to Maarten Neyens
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Jonathan Castroviejo (Euskaltel-Euskadi) takes stock of his injuries
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Bjorn Leukemans was battered by three different crashes.
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Even Fabian Cancellara, "superman" was exhaused after Paris-Roubaix.
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Dominic Klemme (Leopard Trek) doing a little bit of pavement surfing.
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Saur Sojasun's Rony Martias, already sporting bandages from a previous crash, broke his fork right off his bike.
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Many of the crashes came on the paved roads in between the cobbled sectors.
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Adam Hansen (Omega Pharma-Lotto) gets a wheel change.
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It's a long, dangerous chase back on the cobbles, but a bottle-sling from the team car helps.
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Even those who finish the race need help - John Degenkolb examines the effects the cobbles had on his hands.
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Baden Cooke has a Coke and rues his broken cleat.
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Mathew Hayman looks more like a coal miner than bike racer after Paris-Roubaix.
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Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervelo) with a thick muck mask after a dry and dusty Paris-Roubaix.
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Gorazd Stangelj (Astana) probably wondering where he went wrong.
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AG2R's Swiss champion Martin Elmiger coated in grime.
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Kevin Ista (Cofidis) displays remarkable helmet hair and grime lines.
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Quick Step's Sylvain Chavanel apparently used up all his luck in Belgium, and crashed several times.
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One of three crashes which involved Vacansoleil's Bjorn Leukemans.
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Tom Boonen finally got a new bike and a push from the team mechanic.
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Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky teammate Geraint Thomas came to grief on the Arenberg forest.
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The Mavic neutral support car is there for when the team car isn't.
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Mavic provides neutral support, and there was plenty of need in Paris-Roubaix.
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A good teammate stops to give a wheel to his captain.
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Kurt Alse-Arvesen (Sky) at least had a soft landing on this spill.
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A Team NetApp rider falls into a recently ploughed field.
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Photographers snapping, fans shouting, Boonen gets pushed back into the action.
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Tom Boonen had a problem with his bike in the Arenberg forest that left him stranded for what seemed an eternity.
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Tom Boonen's woes multiplied when he had a crash on pave sector 14
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John Degenkolb (HTC-Highroad) shows a bit of the French countryside on his face.
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