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CHRIS CHRIS Froome sealed his second Tour de France after a rain-affected final stage was
FROOME
WINS won by André Greipel in a sprint on the Champs-Élysées. Froome crossed the line shortly
SECOND afterwards wearing the yellow jersey arm-in-arm with his Team Sky team-mates.
TOUR DE The final stage was effectively a procession, with Froome enjoying a customary glass of
FRANCE
TITLE AFTER champagne on his bike with around 100km to go.
FINAL STAGE Froome was officially declared the winner of this year’s Tour
PROCESSION when the riders came into Paris for the first time, before they
embarked on the first of their 10 laps of the Champs-Élysées
after the finish was neutralised due to bad weather.
Froome held off a succession of attacks from Quintana on
Saturday’s stage to take a 1min 12sec lead into the final leg
through Paris, which was effectively enough to secure him
his second title.
His efforts on the road to Alpe d’Huez – the Tour’s
greatest set-piece ascent – also earned him the
King of the Mountains jersey, be-
coming the first Briton to
do so since Robert Mil-
lar in 1984, and the
first rider since Eddy
Merckx in 1970 to
win both yellow and
polka dots in the same year.
Froome can now be compared to many of the Tour’s
greats. Since the second world war four men have won
five Tours, not including the disgraced Lance Arm-
strong, namely Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx, Jacques
Anquetil and Miguel Indurain.
Two – Greg LeMond and Louison Bobet – have taken
three but only a further four, Fausto Coppi, Alberto
Contador, Bernard Thévenet and Laurent Fignon, have
managed two.

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