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Tour de France
Froome’s first coach recalls Tour Champion’s early racing roots
Chris Froome’s achievement in becoming the first African-born rider to win the Tour de France on Sunday comes as no surprise to his first coach, who revealed that the Kenyan-born, South African-educated 28-year-old paid more than his fair share of racing dues in his formative racing years. Chris Froome tackles a climb while racing for […]
Daryl Impey Becomes First African to Wear the Tour de France Yellow Jersey
Daryl Impey finished in a front group of 16 riders on stage six of the Tour de France to move into the race lead. The South African becomes the first African to wear the Tour’s yellow jersey. Simon Gerrans led out Matt Goss for the sprint and conceded five seconds to Impey when the bunch […]
Impey makes history as he takes yellow in the Tour de France
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 […]
Impey second on Tour de France GC after Stage 4 TTT
South African Daryl Impey, racing for the ORICA-GreenEDGE pro cycling team, is placed second on the Tour de France General Classification (GC) after yesterday’s thrilling fourth stage 25km Team Time Trial in Nice. Photo credit: Graham Watson ORICA-GreenEDGE won the TTT by 75 hundredths of a second ahead of Omega Pharma-Quickstep, placing Impey’s teammate Simon […]
Simon Gerrans Delivers First Tour de France Stage Win for ORICA-GreenEDGE
Simon Gerrans made history as the first Australian to win a stage at each of the three Grand Tours. He delivered the first WorldTour victory for the first Australian WorldTour team when he won the Tour Down Under overall last year. Gerrans continued his history-setting ways in Calvi with a win on the third stage […]