Gerrans takes over yellow jersey

Australian Simon Gerrans took the leader's yellow jersey after his Orica GreenEdge squad won the team time trial on day four of the Tour de France. Orica GreenEdge rode the 25km course in Nice in 25 minutes 56 seconds to edge Mark Cavendish's Omega Pharma-QuickStep outfit by 0.75 of a second. Britain's Team Sky, including Geraint Thomas, who is riding with a broken pelvis, were three seconds adrift. "It's the pinnacle of the sport," said Gerrans, 33, the stage threwinner. Despite being in pain because of his injury, Thomas took his turn at the front and stayed with his team-mates until the final kilometre. "My race was to get to the promenade after a kilometre and then when I made it there with the team I was buzzing off that and managed to give it what I had," he said afterwards. "I was shouting at a lot of my team-mates at the end, we just had to give it everything, we were all full gas trying to encourage each other at the end, and I think we can be proud of that."