Boonen pounces as Wiggins fades; TOUR DE FRANCE.BELGIUM'S Tom Boonen Tom Boonen (born on October 15, 1980 in Mol, Belgium) is a professional road bicycle racer and is the 2005 World Road Race Champion. He is considered a single-day road race specialist with a strong finishing sprint. won stage six of the Tour de France yesterday after Bradley Wiggins Bradley Wiggins, OBE (born April 28, 1980) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer. He won three medals on the track at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The son of a professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium but grew up in Maida marked the 40th anniversary of the death of the great Tom Simpson with a lengthy solo break. Simpson, first British cyclist to wear the yellow jersey and the first British winner of the World Championships, died from heat exhaustion heat exhaustion, condition caused by overexposure to sunlight or another heat source and resulting in dehydration and salt depletion, also known as heat prostration. The symptoms are severe headaches, weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, and sometimes unconsciousness. 40 years ago to the day while riding in the 1967 Tour. Wiggins attacked two kilometres after the start in Semur-en-Auxois and was allowed to build his lead to 17 minutes 30 seconds before he was reeled in by the peloton
The peloton (from French, literally meaning ball and related to the English word platoon), field, bunch or . He was caught just 7km from the end of the 199.5km stage to Bourg-en-Bresse. It was a long and ultimately unrewarding day for Wiggins in sweltering conditions. The stage ended in a sprint finish which Boonen won, coming through on the outside to edge ahead of Oscar Freire. Freire was runner-up for the second time in two days, with Erik Zabel third, while Fabian Cancellara and Sylvain Chavanel held onto the yellow and polka-dot jerseys respectively. Quick Step rider Boonen also reclaimed the green jersey from Zabel and admitted that he thought he was out of the race when his bike broke earlier in the race. Boonen said: "I made it on a broken bike. Somebody crashed into my bike and I was almost crying because I thought my bike was broken. "I'm a bit more relaxed this year and it was always possible that I could win. But you have to find your luck, it doesn't come to you." Wiggins ended the day in 143rd place overall, while Scotland's David Millar is fourth, 41 seconds behind Cancellara. Wales' Geraint Thomas is in 154th position while fellow Britons Charles Wegelius and Mark Cavendish occupy 159th and 182nd spots respectively. CAPTION(S): British rider Bradley Wiggins |
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