Australian into Tour de France lead

The Australian Orica GreenEDGE team has followed up its first ever Tour de France stage win with a second in the very next stage.

The Australian Orica GreenEDGE team has followed up its first ever Tour de France stage win with a second in the very next stage.

 

Orica GreenEDGE's win in the stage four team time trial means stage three winner Simon Gerrans assumes the overall lead of the race and will wear the yellow jersey in stage five.

 

Gerrans is only the sixth Australian to lead the world's most famous road cycling race.

 

 






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