Niki Terpstra was second in the contest which was ravaged by rain and strong winds. Geraint Thomas, Friday won the E3 price Harelbeke, finished just behind him in third.
The Belgians Stijn Vandenbergh, Jens Debusschere and Sep Vanmarcke completed the top six as members of the breakaway. Jurgen Roelandts, that the colored race with a long breakaway, was seventh.
Gent-Wevelgem was ravaged by strong winds. Several riders blew off the road and ended up in the ditch. There were many different ranges in the peloton and riders who missed the battle, including Bradley Wiggins, decided to move away.
In the end, took only 39 of the 200 riders started the finish. The seven riders head appeared clearly the strongest and pounded each other with breakaways. That Paolini, last year winner Circulation Het Nieuwsblad employed by Katyusha, a few kilometers from the finish proved decisive
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Neutralization
Martin Velits (Etixx-QuickStep) broke all the consternation his collarbone after a fall and Gert Steegmans Trek was taken to hospital brought but little wrong. Team manager Rik Verbrugghe of IAM Cycling called on the organization to neutralization and got no answer.
Almost all the riders in the breakaway got underway suffer from bad luck. Paolini and Thomas had fallen, Vandenbergh, Terpstra and Vanmarcke reason leak. Several teams spoke of one of the toughest races ever. Riders were askew on the bike to arm themselves against the wind.
Clerk Frank Hoste said afterwards that neutralization was never an option. “Only Wiggins did not sound, but then they go quietly away. There are riders who do not want to stop and can send better so they do not get stuck on the side.”
“If it really extreme was, we had planned to neutralize. Of course, even more extreme than this. The wind can also be 120 kilometers per hour instead of eighty, though I have a course with so many fans have never seen, “said the former rider against Sporza
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Tjallingii
Bram Tankink and Maarten Tjallingii were next Terpstra the only Dutch which 240 kilometers completed. The riders of Lotto Jumbo were in the last group on more than seven minutes. Tjallingii previously have only gone on the attack, but was overtaken by Roelandts.
Albert Timmer (Giant Alpecin) and Tim Kerkhof (Team Roompot) made in the initial phase also part of a seven-man breakaway, who not too long persisted. Many as 161 riders finally had to stop the fight, 21 of them were Dutch
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