Impey out after failed test

Daryl Impey, who last year became the first African to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey, has failed a drugs test, his team Orica-GreenEdge have announced.

Impey was left off the team’s squad for this year’s Tour, announced on Tuesday, opening the door for 21-year-old British rider Simon Yates to take the start line in Leeds on Saturday.

Yesterday, the Australian released a statement on his personal website which said: “Further to the announcement of the Tour de France team and in the interests of full disclosure, I confirm that on 23 June 2014, I was notified by William Newman, the president of Cycling South Africa, about an adverse analytical finding for Probenecid following an in-competition test at the national time trial championships on 6 February 2014.