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Article: Cycle: Tour-France's Feillu takes yellow jersey
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- AAP Sports News (Australia)
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- July 8, 2008
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AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-08-2008
Cycle: Tour-France's Feillu takes yellow jersey
By Julien Pretot
NANTES, France, July 7 Reuters - Frenchman Romain Feillu seized the overall lead as
compatriot Samuel Dumoulin won the third stage in a day of upsets on the Tour de France.
Agritubel's Feillu, the first local to wear the yellow jersey on the Tour since Cyril
Dessel two years ago, was third behind Cofidis's Dumoulin and Garmin Chipotle's William
Frischkorn of the United States.
Dumoulin, however, proved the best sprinter of a breakaway quartet that parted company
with the peloton one kilometre after the start of the 208-km stage from St Malo to Nantes.
"I knew that I was well ...