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<\/a><\/p>\nPhoto credit: Graham Watson<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n ORICA-GreenEDGE won the TTT by 75 hundredths of a second ahead of Omega Pharma-Quickstep, placing Impey\u2019s teammate Simon Gerrans in the yellow jersey, and Impey himself in second place on the overall GC.<\/p>\n Read the full story by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Qu\u00e9net on cyclingnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n Will Impey be the first African yellow jersey?<\/strong><\/p>\n Symbolic return to Marseille<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Simon Gerrans<\/a> has taken the yellow jersey of the Tour de France<\/a>, 22 years after his first mentor Phil Anderson became the first Australian to do so. His South African teammate of Orica GreenEdge<\/a> Daryl Impey<\/a> is on the verge of succeeding to him and become the first-ever African cyclist to lead the world’s biggest race the year that Kenyan-born Chris Froome<\/a> was highly expected to be the one.<\/p>\n Since 2008, there’s no more time bonus awarded to the top three of intermediate sprints and stage finishes. Therefore, Gerrans, Impey and their Swiss teammate Michael Albasini are classified with the same time after they won the team time trial in Nice<\/a>. Gerrans currently leads the race because of the addition of the places with a total of 32 as he finished 15th, 16th and first in the first three stages in Corsica. Impey is not much further back with a total of 41 after coming 11th, 8th and 22nd successively. Gerrans knows this rule very well as he won the 2012 Santos Tour Down Under over Alejandro Valverde this way despite having clocked the same time.<\/p>\n