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107th Paris-Roubaix (2009) April 12th

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« 116 Big Photos from Paris-Roubaix 2008 ()

Photos Page 1:  2008 Pavé d'Arenberg ie Last Year's Pre-race Training  2009 Results and Report

	Filippo Pozzato warming in 2008 for his previous team, Liquigas
Alessandro Ballan during last year's Arenberg warm up. The next day he would finish 3rd.
Quick Step warming up prior to the 2008 race	Filippo Pozzato warming up in 2008

Photos Page 2:  2009 Pavé d'Arenberg Pre-race Training  2009 Results and Report

Le Trouee d'Arenberg aka the Arenberg Trench	Chris Horner said several years ago: "...they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That's Paris-Roubaix. It's that bad - it's ridiculous."	Recreational cyclists find out how horrible the ride is over the bumpy cobbles
Last year's champion and two time winner, Tom Boonen (Bel) of Quick Step testing out how the pavé d'Arenberg feels this year	Not exactly his event, but Filippo Pozzato (Ita) of Katusha has been on great form the last two weeks	Another Italian, Manuel Quinziato of Liquigas, is also on fine form with good showings at Tour of Flanders and Gent-Wevelgem. Here he is being interviewed by Davide Cassini of RAI Sport.
Le Carrefour de l'Arbre at km 242 is the 4th last cobble section extending for 2km and rated among the hardest. That namesake restaurant will be busy on Sunday.	The "Russian Global Cycling Project" has rolled in	Inside the Katusha team bus, Filippo Pozzato is interviewed by the Italian press including Claudio Ghisalberti of Gazzetta dello Sport (also seated)

Photos Page 3:  2009 race action  2009 Results and Report

A course that zigzags through the farmland outside Paris	Tom Boonen leads the peloton along the Pavé d'Arenberg while riders fall off the pace or crash into the crowd behind	George Hincapie leads the chase to rejoin the lead group of six after a 45-second mechanical stop cost him dearly
Tom Boonen leads Thor Hushovd around a tricky cobble corner near the end of the race.	Thor Hushovd would crash shortly after this photo and finished 3rd	The Hoste/Flecha crash delayed Filippo Pozzato, but he would regain second after Hushovd's solo crash just ahead. Pozzato was just 10 seconds back of Boonen at one point and was booed loudly by partisan Belgium fans while in hot pursuit.
Tom Boonen celebrates his third Paris-Roubaix win and gets anointed a "legend" by Gazzetta dello Sport. Filippo Pozzato in the rear has one more lap of the velodrome before he would place 2nd @47 seconds.	Bloody exhausted is Boonen post-race when greeted by his Quick Step team boss, Patrick Lefevere	A new year, a familiar photo