CHATEAUROUX, France, July 8 (Reuters) - Bradley Wiggins’s Tour de France came to a brutal end as the Briton abandoned the race after breaking his collarbone in a multiple pile-up some 40 kilometres from the end of the seventh stage on Friday.
The Team Sky rider, fourth overall in 2009, looked in serious pain as he held his left arm before leaving the scene of the crash in an ambulance. A team spokesman confirmed he had suffered a broken left collarbone.
Wiggins’s crash came just one day after Team Sky snatched their first victory on the Tour when Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen won the sixth stage.
The British champion came to the race in great form, having won the prestigious Criterium du Dauphine, a pre Tour warm-up event last month.
Wiggins, a three-times Olympic pursuit champion, came to prominence on the road in 2009 when he finished a surprising fourth overall in the Tour.
Last year, he ended a disappointing 24th overall but said that he had prepared much better for this year’s race.
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