Top Murdoch employee quits after major disaster

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Bradley Wiggins out of Tour de France after crash on stage seven

• Team Sky rider suffers suspected broken collarbone

After the ecstasy of Thursday's stage win in Lisieux, the road to Chateauroux ended in agony for Team Sky, when their leader, Bradley Wiggins, was forced to abandon the Tour de France after a crash 40km from the finish left him with a broken collarbone. The disaster for Team Sky came almost exactly 24 hours after their Norwegian starlet Edvald Boasson Hagen had opened the squad's account in the Tour.

The stage finished with Mark Cavendish sprinting to his second victory of this year's Tour. After being told of Wiggins's withdrawal, Cavendish looked shocked and said: "I'm gutted for him, he was probably in the best form of his life."

The Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford said: "It's obviously a devastating day for the team. He's in great shape, team leader, it's the end of his Tour. It's a shame we never got to see him going in the mountains. He was in the form of his life."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/08/bradley-wiggins-out-tour-de-france

:evilgrin: OK, it's only the Tour de France, but it seems quite symbolic that after a huge crash, the BSkyB-(39% Murdoch-owned)-sponsored team has lost one of its top riders.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

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