Good morning and welcome to the Gent-Wevelgem live blog. We're jumping right into the action, despite still having four hours of racing to come, as we're receiving news of a 20-strong super break that has already opened up a gap on the peloton.

Gent - Wevelgem Men

Men | 31.03.2019

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ByThe Editorial Team

Updated 31/03/2019 at 15:37 GMT

The riders are absolutely hooning it at the moment, with 54 kilometres covered in the second hour of racing. I get a bit wheezy riding at about half that speed for an hour.

The wind really is wreaking havok today, with as many as four groups out there right now.

Two other teams have three riders. Bora have Sagan, Ackermann and Selig; while Trek Segafredo has Degenkolb, Stuyven and Pedersen.

Jumbo Visma are doing loads of work trying to propel the first echelon along - they have three riders in that lead group; van Aert, Wynants and Teunissen.

Notably absent from this lead group are CCC's Greg Van Avermaet and all but one of Deceuninck-Quick Step, Tim Declercq.

Declercq is a very handy rider, but he's not the strongest in the Belgian squad. They'd have been happier with someone else up there too.

Back on the cobbles, however, the race appears to be coming back together - albeit slowly...

Romain Bardet and Simon Geschke are among those who won't be completing the final stage of the Spanish race.

While we wait for live pictures of the echelons in Gent Wevelgem, over in the Volta a Catalunya there has been a nasty, nasty crash...

It's a windy day in Flanders, which is what lead to the breakup of the race. That, and some serious watt bombs being dropped by Mads Pedersen...

And here they are, or some of them at least... Sagan, Ackermann, Selig, Declercq, Trentin, Van Aert, Wynants, Teunissen, Van der Hoorn, Van Poppel, Rowe, Bol, Degenkolb, Pedersen, Stuyven, Theuns, Gaviria, Van der Poel, Terpstra, Van Schip.

Or as the official race twitter account puts it, "We have race!"

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