That gave the Lampre rider the leader's yellow jersey from opening stage winner Tom Boonen of Belgium.
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And he has also worn the leader's yellow jersey on two previous Tours.
Wiggins is the breakthrough British Tour champ, the first yellow jersey winner to follow victory in Paris with a gold.
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Kenyan-born Froome finished second in last year's race and is one of the favorites to take the yellow jersey in 2013.
Ten days ago Wiggins was on the Champs-Elysees in a yellow jersey, the first British champion of the Tour de France.
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He has also won three stages of the Tour de France and has worn the yellow jersey on three separate occasions.
They took the yellow jersey two years in a row courtesy of first Bjarne Riis (1996) and Ullrich the second year.
Schleck ensured he will wear the yellow jersey for a second day as the top 10 of the general classification standings remained unchanged.
Wiggins, who has had the race leader's yellow jersey since July 7, ordered other race participants to wait and allow Evans to catch up.
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Contador, the yellow jersey winner in Paris, first in 2007 and then in 2009, could have been be stripped of the 2010 Tour title.
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And that's without even mentioning the fascinating rivalry with his own team-mate, Alberto Contador, winner in 2007 and the favourite for this year's yellow jersey.
Last year Thomas Voeckler held on to the yellow jersey for 10 days, won the admiration of cycling fans everywhere and finished fourth overall behind Evans.
The ranks of the hardened cycling tifosi have been swelled by those bitten by the bug of Wiggo's yellow jersey and the bike heroics of London 2012.
The 30-year-old Landis cruised to victory on the Champs-Elysees, a day after regaining the leader's yellow jersey and building an insurmountable lead in the final time trial.
Palomares, 31, demonstrated his climbing skills during the 101-mile stage to take the stage on the line from Stubbe and the yellow jersey from Russia's Nikolai Trusov.
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Hungary's Laszlo Bodrogi remains a realistic early yellow jersey wearer.
So, with the dramatic backdrop of the Champs Elysees beckoning, Sastre has the yellow jersey, Oscar Freire the green, Bernard Kohl the polka dots, and Andy Schleck the white.
It features a dozen riders from almost as many countries that have a plausible shot at winning the overall race and wearing the yellow jersey in Paris July 25.
Boisset is also the producer of Yellow Jersey, the first wine that will be available in a 750-milliliter plastic bottle when it is launched in the U.S. later this summer.
Simpson became the first British rider to claim the race leader's yellow jersey in 1962 and his achievements paved the way for English-speaking competitors in a sport entirely dominated by Europeans.
Saturday, Landis placed third in the Tour's last time trial, wresting the yellow jersey from former teammate Pereiro and securing a 59-second lead over the Spaniard, who finished fourth in the stage.
Only 27 riders managed to get into the split, including all nine of the Columbia team, but significantly Armstrong and yellow jersey wearer Fabian Cancellara both got themselves into the leading group.
The community even has its own bike race, the defiantly non-competitive Tour de Lopez where contestants race for burgers rather than a yellow jersey during the last weekend in April each year.
Armstrong, who by then had won his last of seven Tours de France, joked on air that the yellow tie he was wearing was made from the yellow jersey worn by the race's leader.
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Anyone can criticize Armstrong for his lack of character, his lust for the yellow jersey, his willingness to lie, deceive, cheat, bully and revel in the glory that he robbed from those who truly deserved it.
Lance fans who made it to the finish line at the top of the alpine ski resort of Courchevel went wild as their hero took back the leading rider's yellow jersey in a ceremony just after the race.
But in the early hours of this morning they will burning the midnight oil one last time as Australia's latest national hero cycles down the Champs-Elysees wearing a yellow jersey and with a flute of champagne in his hand.
"I think Bradley will go to the Olympics with the aim of repaying Mark Cavendish for his work and sacrifice in the quest for the yellow jersey, " Robert Millar, who finished fourth and was named King of the Mountains in the 1984 Tour, told CNN.
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