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Edvald Boasson Hagen, 21, won the 203-kilometre Gent-Wevelgem today in Belgium. The Columbia-Highroad rider escaped with Aleksandr Kuschynski (Liquigas) near the second ascent of the Kemmelberg with 36 kilometres to go. Pre-race favourite Mark Cavendish (Columbia-Highroad) flatted early and subsequently missed the move of the day. But his young Norwegian teammate Boasson Hagen kept the victory within the team. "It's my biggest win so far," he said. It wasn't planned, though. "I just wanted to do ...
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- The Quick Step team chasing to no avail after the peloton split.
- Rabobank's Tom Leezer had a great ride in the break.
- Tom Boonen (Quick Step) had no luck and double-flatted out of 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.
- Markus Burghardt sets the tempo on the first trip up the Kemmelberg
- Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) looking pretty miserable.
- 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.
- Maarten Wynants (Quick Step) takes the lead of the peloton on the Kemmelberg.
- Boasson Hagen makes his jump to Kuschynski
- Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia-Highroad) in the lead with Kuschynski in the final kilometres.
- Mathew Hayman (Rabobank) made the front group.
- Bernhard Eisel leads Mark Cavendish (Columbia-Highroad) in the peloton at Gent-Wevelgem.
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