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Three time winner of the Tour of Flanders. Four time Paris-Roubaix winner. Five time winner of E3.

Three time winner of the Tour of Flanders. Four time Paris-Roubaix winner. Five time winner of E3.

Although Garmin-Sharp has endured a difficult Classics campaign Tyler Farrar is adamant that the American team can pull out a result between the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. The team has been ravaged by injury and illness in recent weeks, with David Millar, Ramunas Navardauskas and Jack Bauer crashing or going home sick.

When he lines up in Harelbeke's market square on Friday morning for the 56th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen-Harelbeke, Fabian Cancellara will be just about five hours short of a two-year dry spell at the northern classics.

Everyone was surprised to see Sylvain Chavanel dart to victory in Saturday's reduced bunch sprint into Nice.