Yellow jersey contender Bradley Wiggins crashed out of the Tour de France after being caught up in a crash on the race's seventh stage Friday. Wiggins, of Team Sky, finished fourth overall in 2009 and, after his recent victory in the Criterium du Dauphine race, the Englishman was considered a strong challenger to reigning champion Alberto Contador and Luxembourg's Andy Schleck.
On what is their second participation in the world's premier cycling event Team Sky celebrated their first win Thursday when Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen won the sixth stage to Lisieux in Normandy. However the team's hopes of seeing Wiggins become the first Briton to finish on the podium ended around 43km from the end of the 218 km seventh stage to Chateauroux.