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Team Garmin-Cervelo will head into the Tour of Flanders with three strong names consisting of Tyler Farrar, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler.

Despite strength in numbers they are well aware that the man to beat will Fabian Cancellara, but Farrar, who finished fourth last year, is confident that the team can play all their cards in a bid to not just stop Cancellara, but also win the team’s first Classic.

One week Emma Pooley (Garmin-Cervélo) won the Trofeo Alfredo Binda that kicked off the 2011 UCI Women’s World Cup, the women’s peloton heads to Belgium on Sunday for the Ronde van Vlaanderen Vrouwen, the Women’s Tour of Flanders, for the series’ second of nine rounds.

Pooley will start in defence of her World Cup leader’s jersey, but she doesn’t expect to be a factor on the cobbled parcours.

German-born Andreas Klier lived in Flanders for eleven years before recently moving to Mallorca. When he returned yesterday for a quick ride on the Flanders route, he was all grins and stories, despite the snow and ice on the Koppenberg. Image: Jered Gruber