The chase group catches Andrei Tchmil and Frédéric Moncasssin just as they are about to turn on to the finish in the Roubaix velodrome. Frederic Guesdon is sitting on the back of this group until the final hundred meters and then sprints for the win.
Lauritzen recovers from his crash and joins the break. He attacks on the climb but his bad luck continues when Belgian Dirk DeWolf knocks him off his bike.
Inside the Fassa Bortolo team for the 2005 Milan-San Remo.
It's great to see the reaction of Giancarlo Ferretti to the win by his rider Alessandro Petacchi. You would think that these team directors would have seen it all by now and a race win is just another race win. No way.
At the professional level, every win is a very big deal.
Michele Bartoli wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège after handling multiple one-two attacks from ONCE team mates Laurent Jalabert and Alex Zülle.
Zülle was 8 seconds back when Bartoli takes a look over his shoulder, attacks Jalabert and solos across the finish line.
The regrettable Tom Steels bottle throwing incident. Steels would be thrown out of the Tour for this stunt. Also included is a relegation for Erik Zabel due to improper sprinting and a doping offense for Djamolidine Abdoujaparov which would see him ejected from the Tour as well.