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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Simon Gerrans became the second consecutive Australian to win the Milan-San Remo classic Saturday, edging Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara and Italy's Vincenzo Nibali in a three-man sprint finish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Gerrans, who rides for the GreenEdge team, finished in 6 hours, 59 minutes, 24 seconds. Cancellara and Nibali crossed with the same time. Last year, Matthew Goss became the first Australian winner of the 185-mile race.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   \"It's an incredible day, I can't believe it,\" Gerrans said. \"It doesn't get any better than this. This is going to take a long, long time to sink in. ... I've had good legs since the beginning of the season.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   World champion Mark Cavendish, the 2009 San Remo winner, surprisingly dropped behind on the mild Le Manie climb with 62 miles to go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Colombian rider Carlos Julian Quintero crashed during a descent and was taken to a hospital with suspected head trauma and broken collarbone. Italian state TV RAI reports that Quintero briefly lost consciousness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Quintero, who rides for the Colombia-Coldeportes squad, was seen lying on the road, tended to by paramedics at the bottom of the Le Manie descent with 53 miles left in the race.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Belgian standout Philippe Gilbert was involved in a multirider crash with about 14 miles to go. He got back on his bike but couldn't rejoin the leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Matteo Trentin of the Omega Quickstep team fell 150 yards before the finish, leaving him scraped and bruised.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   Ji Cheng, the first Chinese rider in the race's history, attacked at the start with Vegard Stake Laengen of Norway. The pair was soon joined by seven other riders to form a nine-man breakaway that built a lead of more than 13 minutes on the main pack. The breakaway riders were caught with 37 miles to go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;   For the race's 103rd edition, 200 riders started and 149 finished. Gerrans averaged 27 mph under mostly sunny skies.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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