Milan San-Remo 2008 March 22nd

Photos Page 1:  The start and the early, long 4-man break  Full Results and Report

Riders basking in the sunshine meeting with fans and media before the start	Mario Cipollini	Robbie McEwen
Paulo Bettini	Lining for a long day	The neutral start through Milano
The race is on and Mikhail Ignatiev of Tinkoff Credit Systems immediately leaps off the front	Mikhail Ignatiev attempting 298k solo ride
The first serious break at km 72, L-to-R:: William Frischkorn (Slipstream Chipotle - H30), Filippo Savini (CSF Group Navigare) and Raivis Belohvosciks (Saunier Duval-Scott)	Nicola D'Andrea (Miche-Silver Cross) has joined in making it foursome	They stayed away a long time
The four riders stayed away for 270 km	Meanwhile some photos of the peloton following behind: The Italian Champ (Visconti) and World Champ (Bettini)

Photos Page 2:  The late attacks and finish  Full Results and Report

After the long four-man break is caught, Paulo Bettini leaps off the front of peloton at km 275	Thomas Lovkvist of High Road joins Bettini. That's Jose Ivan Gutierrez of Caisse d'Epargne in the background making an unsuccessful attempt to bridge up	The attacks out of the peloton are coming fast and furious now. Niklas Axelsson and Davide Rebellin have a gap
Five minutes later Axelsson and Rebellin have caught up with Bettini and Lovkvist.		Paolo Savoldelli has caught the four man break on the Cipressa descent.
The break was caught on the Poggio. Now the peloton is descending.	Poggio descent	Poggio descent
Man down!
Just 7k to go for this new lead group.	Davide Rebellin is the only rider who is retained from the previous break	Racing into San-Remo
		San-Remo
With 3k to go, Fabian Cancellara is about to bridge across to the lead group	Fabian Cancellara catches and passes the break and attempts to time-trial to the finish	Fabian Cancellara solos the last 2k
The winning time for the 298k race: 7 hours 14 minutes 35 seconds (41,142 km/h)		Four seconds back; 2nd Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas (right) and 3rd Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise des Jeux (second from the left)
Davide Rebellin, Philippe Gilbert and Anthony Geslin after crossing the line

Photos Page 3:  The podium  Full Results and Report

	Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC on the winner's podium
		L-to-R: 2nd Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas, 1st Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC and 3rd Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise des Jeux
Philippe Gilbert	Filippo Pozzato