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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Gent-Wevelgem 2023!
We're just a few minutes from the start, where the peloton will roll out into the neutral zone in Ypres.
A few non-starters on the list so far today – Astana's Mark Cavendish and Israel-Premier Tech duo Rick Zabel and Hugo Houle.
A look at the map of today's race. The route swings around south towards Wevelgem early on before heading north for the coast and the winds of De Moeren. Then it's back south for the cobbles, the climbs, the Kemmelberg, before going on through Ypres again on to the finish.
In addition to Cavendish, Houle and Zabel, Benjamin Perry (Human Powered Health) and Andrii Ponomar (Arkéa-Samsic) won't be starting today.
Otto Vergaerde (Trek-Segafredo) is also a DNS today.
The riders have started the race proper now. Attacks flying as they leave Ypres but no break yet.
248km to go
Six riders have a gap of a few seconds.
Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ) is in the move. Johan Jacobs (Movistar) also there with several riders from ProTeams Human Powered Health, Flanders-Baloise, and Bingoal WB.
The group only has around 10-15 seconds at the moment on these flat early roads.
Milan Fretin (Flanders-Baloise), Luca Van Boven (Bingoal WB) and Human Powered Health pairing Colin Joyce and Gijs Van Hoecke are also in the move.
243km to go
Van Hoecke drops from the attack.
Still only a small gap for those out front at the moment.
Askey, Jacobs, Fretin, Van Boven, and Joyce aren't being given any leeway by the peloton.
Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep) has an early puncture, while Søren Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) also stopped for some mechanical assistance not long ago.
235km to go
A very quick start here – the average speed so far is 47kph.