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Summary Thomas De Gendt won the seventh stage of Paris-Nice race while Bradley Wiggins kept overall lead.
Belgiums Thomas De Gendt has won the seventh stage of the Paris-Nice race in a breakaway and Bradley Wiggins of Britain kept the overall lead.Saturdays 219.5-kilometer (136.4-mile) trek from Sisteron to Nice featured four climbs and was the hardest leg of the week-long race.The 25-year-old Belgian jumped out early from the pack with Rein Taaramae but then outclassed the Estonian on the days hardest climb the category-one Vence pass.De Gendt beat Taaramae by 6 minutes, 18 seconds, while Wiggins finished in the main pack, 9:24 back.The days big loser was 38-year-old American Levi Leipheimer. He tumbled from third place overall after losing time in the third of his three crashes on the day.The race finishes Sunday with a 9.6-kilometer time trial from Nice to Col dEze.
