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Impey makes history as he takes yellow in the Tour de France

By BikeHubCoreAdmin · 208 comments

Daryl Impey makes history as the first South African to wear yellow at the Tour de France.

http://media.thehubsa.co.za/forum/uploads/monthly_07_2013/post-28740-0-75464500-1372952261.jpg

From www.letour.fr:

Impey the overall leader: the new top five of the 100th Tour…

History has been made: Daryl Impey moves from second overall to first. He finished the stage in 13th place while his team-mate and former race leader Simon Gerrans was 48th. This means that the South African has taken the yellow jersey and he is the first from his country to lead the Tour de France.

The new top five is:

1. Daryl Impey (RSA) OGE

2. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) SKY – at 3″

3. Simon Gerrans (AUS) OGE – at 5″

4. Michael Albasini (SUI) OGE – at 5″

5. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL) OPQ – at 6″

Read the day’s report with insights from Daryl and Team ORICA-GreenEDGE here:

https://www.bikehub.co.za/features/_/road/international-road/daryl-impey-becomes-first-african-to-wear-the-tour-de-france-yellow-jersey-r781

Comments

Eugene Oppelt

Jul 9, 2013, 6:49 PM

Being in yellow is a bit like winning an F1GP. It is a very big deal.

 

Being in yellow in Paris is like being crowned F1 champion. Not a perfect analogy but it was the best I could come up with today when a client commented that Daryl clearly wasn't good enough. Made me very annoyed actually.

 

Stupido!

 

 

LeTurbo

Jul 11, 2013, 2:39 PM

Just buggering around on Youtube and found this. Trantjies in my oejies.

 

Shebeen

Jul 15, 2013, 5:55 AM

so, Daryl was in the break - bit optimistic on the ventoux stage...saw a bloody lot of SA flags flying on the roadside

gtr1

Jul 15, 2013, 6:05 AM

Just buggering around on Youtube and found this. Trantjies in my oejies.

 

 

Got goosebumps :-)

gummibear

Sep 19, 2013, 2:49 PM

My Ausie mate organized something special for my kids from the Tour de France.

 

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3762/9819406064_4e88e0f291_b.jpg

Paul Ruinaard

Sep 19, 2013, 2:52 PM

My Ausie mate organized something special for my kids from the Tour de France.

 

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3762/9819406064_4e88e0f291_b.jpg

wow - now that is worth a lot of money - treasure it.
gummibear

Sep 19, 2013, 3:01 PM

wow - now that is worth a lot of money - treasure it.

 

I am having it framed for them.

Shebeen

Aug 19, 2019, 1:09 PM

https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/czech-cycling-tour/2019/gc

 

a win is a win

Stage 1

GC

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