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It was meant to be a stage for the _ sprinters and an uneventful one for other teams but Sky has lost everything _ after the victory of Edvald Boasson Hagen. A crash took out the leader Bradley _ Wiggins who was forced to abandon, and two others broke their bikes. Then there _ were some who couldn’t break the habit of waiting for their team leaders… and _ they tried to chase by it was too late as the battle for the stage win had been _ launched and they couldn’t return to the front peloton.
_ _Team Sky is 9’38” in stage seven and they’ve _ lost the second place in the team’s general classification which is still controlled _ by Garmin-Cervélo who are four seconds ahead of Leopard-Trek and 10 seconds up _ on RadioShack.
_ _The seventh stage saw a return of Omega _ Pharma-Lotto with André Greipel third in Châteauroux, Philippe Gilbert 14th _ and Jurgen van den Broeck also avoiding the carnage to finish 19th.
