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Cavendish crashes as Swift swoops at Tour Down Under

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Team Sky sprinter Ben Swift claimed his first major win of the season after surviving the crash-marred finale to the second stage of the Tour Down Under.

British tyro Swift was one of the few sprinters to emerge unhindered in the final few hundred metres of the 146-kilometre stage from Tailem Bend to Mannum on Wednesday after a series of late spills caused mayhem in the peloton.

Swift finished ahead of Australian pair Robbie McEwen (RadioShack), in second, and Rabobank's Graeme Brown, who was third.

McEwen took possession of the overall race leader's ochre jersey from overnight leader Matthew Goss, who slipped to second overall with Swift moving up to third.

Following two days of seeing Goss raise his arms in the air in triumph, after the Tasmanian added victory on stage one to Sunday's win in a pre-race criterium, HTC-Highroad were brought crashing down to earth.

Goss came down in the final kilometres and suffered only scrapes, although British teammate, star sprinter Mark Cavendish, was left with facial injuries after he hit the tarmac hard in the hectic finale.

It was unknown immediately whether Cavendish, a 15-time stage winner on the Tour de France, would continue the race.

Welshman Geraint Thomas of Team Sky, UniSA brothers Cameron and Travis Meyer, Baden Cooke and American Tyler Farrar were also among the crash victims.


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