2007 Paris–Roubaix

Right from the start, several riders tried to be part of the traditional early breakaway, however, the peloton looked to be letting no one go. It was only after 31 kilometers that a group of 34 riders got away. The lead of the group never grew very big but in the chasing peloton a lot of the favorites were looking at each other. In the end, only a few of the favorites got away from the group: Tom Boonen, Leif Hoste, Marcus Burghardt and Staf Scheirlinckx. However, they also did not cooperate very well and in the end, a few of the survivors of the lead group were never to be seen again. Of those, Stuart O'Grady in the end proved to be the strongest. O'Grady had actually dropped from the lead group because of a puncture but had gotten back together with a few others, namely Juan Antonio Flecha, Steffen Wesemann and Björn Leukemans. Still, of the original breakaway group, five riders got into the top ten, which does not happen often in Paris–Roubaix. It should be mentioned, however, that Leif Hoste was knocked down by a motorbike on Carrefour de l'Arbre. Had he reached Tom Boonen, the race could have ended otherwise.

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