Tour de France '09
Live Race Report 12:38
The biggest road race of the year, this year's Tour takes a clockwise loop round France, starting in London.
Distance covered: 203KM
Distance remaining: 0KM
That's all from us for stage 1 of the Tour. Tune into BikeRadar.com at 12:10 BST (13:10 in Europe) on Monday for our live coverage of stage 2 between Dunkirk and Ghent.
Distance covered: 203KM
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Incredible sprint by McEwen! He only got back on the bunch with 5km to go! He came up the middle with Hushovd and Boonen trying to follow, but held them off by a clear margin. Hushovd second, Boonen third, and Cancellara keeps the yellow jersey.
That was a Canterbury tale and a half...
Provisional results
1 Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus ¦ Predictor - Lotto) 4:39:01
2 Thor Hushovd (Nor ¦ Credit Agricole)
3 Tom Boonen (Bel ¦ Quick Step - Innergetic)
4 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra ¦ Francaise Des Jeux)
5 Romain Feillu (Fra ¦ Agritubel)
General classification after stage 1
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi ¦ Team CSC) 4:47:51
2 Andréas Klöden (Ger ¦ Astana) 00:00:13
3 David Millar (GBr ¦ Saunier Duval - Prodir) 00:00:21
4 George Hincapie (USA ¦ Discovery Channel Team) 00:00:23
5 Bradley Wiggins (GBr ¦ Cofidis Credit Par Telephone) 00:00:23
Distance covered: 203KM
Distance remaining: 0KM
Zabel is in third wheel as he gets a leadout but it's too early. Then Degano takes a flyer...Vaitkus on his wheel, then Napolitano and Freire. But Robbie McEwen comes up the outside and takes and incredible stage win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Distance covered: 202KM
Distance remaining: 1KM
1km to go as De Jongh leads for Boonen. Milram is up there in numbers for Zabel.
Distance covered: 202KM
Distance remaining: 1KM
Sieberg comes up for Milram, challenging the Quick.Step train. It's all blue as they race aroun the castle.
Distance covered: 201KM
Distance remaining: 2KM
They take the left hander that will lead them to the ring road. Four Quick.Steps plus one Gerolsteiner challenging for position. Tosatto is in front with 2km to go.
Distance covered: 200KM
Distance remaining: 3KM
Righi swings off then Ballan takes over as they hit Canterbury. It's all Quick.Step now.
Distance covered: 199KM
Distance remaining: 4KM
Lampre's Righi and Ballan are leading up to 4km to go, then a host of Quick.Steps behind them. McEwen's will have a bit of work to get back up...
Distance covered: 198KM
Distance remaining: 5KM
Astana is up there keeping their captains out of trouble, but they have no sprinter. Quick.Step have the numbers. McEwen's group might just have got back onto the peloton.
Distance covered: 197KM
Distance remaining: 6KM
6km left and Lampre leads the peloton for their men Bennati and Napolitano. Boonen is well placed in the Quick.Step train, and he looks to be the favourite for today.
