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LAC DE PAYOLLE, France -- Adam Yates didnt know what hit him.On the attack in the Tour de France, the British rider was suddenly performing a somersault in midair after an inflatable arch marking the final kilometer collapsed and hit him during a bizarre finale to Fridays seventh stage.Yates hit the ground hard, bloodying his chin and bruising his shoulder. Still, he was able to get back on his bike and reach the finish shortly after his countryman Steve Cummings won the first of four stages in the Pyrenees with a solo attack on the Col dAspin climb.I had no time to react, Yates said after getting his chin stitched up. Its a good thing it was just me on my own. It could have been a lot worse with the peloton sprinting at 70 kph (45 mph). ... I cant tell you what happened. The barrier came down.Fortunately, his day only got better. Organizers later revised his time and he rose to second in the overall standings, 5 minutes 50 seconds behind race leader Greg Van Avermaet of Belgium.The 23-year-old Yates also earned the white jersey as the Tours highest-placed young rider after officials took the finishing times three kilometers from the end of the 162.5-kilometer (101-mile) leg from LIsle-Jourdain to Lac de Payolle.It wont make a big difference because there was a downhill and flat portion before the finish, said Thierry Gouvenou, the Tour technical director. It was a major incident, but we have the means to deal with it.Van Avermaet, who was in a breakaway with Cummings, held on to the overall leaders yellow jersey he claimed two days earlier. Overall favorites Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana finished in the main pack.Froome, Quintana, and other riders had to lift the crumpled arch -- known as the flamme rouge for the red flag it holds -- off the ground and slip their bikes underneath it.Julian Alaphilippe is third in the overall standings, 5:51 behind, with Alejandro Valverde fourth, 5:53 back.I did not plan to be in a breakaway, Van Avermaet said. Im not a good climber, Im a classic rider, and the big favorites did not see me as a threat.Thibaut Pinot, considered one of the top French contenders, was dropped on the Aspin.All 198 riders started the stage, marking the first time the entire peloton was still racing this late in the Tour in 103 editions.The Aspin, which was included in the Tour for the 73rd time, was affronted from its longer southern slope, 12 kilometers at an average gradient of 6.5 percent.Cummings was part of a 29-man breakaway featuring Van Avermaet and 2014 winner Vincenzo Nibali.However, it was Cummings who attacked first on the Aspin and he rode solo over the summit and maintained a comfortable lead on the ensuing high-speed descent and slight rise to the finish in Lac de Payolle.Cummings shook his head in disbelief as he approached the line then raised both arms, pumped his fist, and kissed his wrist.I was cooking on that climb and I thought Vincenzo would come back, Cummings said. I thought Nibali would pass me like Marco Pantani or something and I would never be able to get on the wheel.But you just keep going, Cummings added. I was on the limit the whole last climb. It was horrible, actually.Cummings, a teammate of Mark Cavendish on Team Dimension Data, also won a stage in last years Tour.When the main pack reached the line 4 1/2 minutes later, Quintana and Froome were seen patting each other on the back and talking to each other, likely about the incident with the inflatable device.Stage 8 on Saturday is a much more challenging 184-kilometer (114-mile) leg from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon featuring four serious climbs, beginning with the Col du Tourmalet, which is so difficult its labeled beyond classification.Weve got a really big weekend coming up and theres a lot of hard racing to come, Froome said. 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PHILADELPHIA -- Sevyn Streeter sang the national anthem before Philadelphia?hosted the?Los Angeles Lakers?on Friday after the 76ers had canceled her previous appearance in late October because she wanted to sing while wearing a We Matter jersey.Before the anthem Friday, which Streeter performed to cheers from the crowd while wearing her We Matter jersey, Streeter told ESPN in a SportsCenter appearance, Im happy that we were able to turn an unfortunate situation into something really positive.The 76ers later apologized to Streeter after telling her before the Oct. 26 game against Oklahoma City that she could not perform the national anthem.I think that me saying We Matter and me singing the anthem, the two, they dont conflict, Streeter said Friday. Theres no conflict in the two for me. I love my country. I love it so much. When you love something so much, you only just want it to be better..ddddddddddddYou want it to be better and thats really what We Matters means to me. The two do not conflict for me.Streeter recently wore a shirt that said Love & Respect while singing the national anthem before the Warriors and Clippers faced off.That was amazing, Streeter said of that experience. And Love & Respect is one of my foundations. I just did a whole concert for my whole hometown and gave away toy goods and things. So love and respect, thats just how I live my life. I think that its important to have love and respect for everybody. Its an opportunity to spread that message as well and it was awesome that I was able to do that.Streeter has written songs for Chris Brown, Ariana Grande and other stars, and in 2013 she had a Top 40 hit with It Wont Stop. ' ' '