Tour de France 2017- Chris Froome wins competition

This is the fourth time the Sky Team rider is winning the title and is the fourth Briton to have won the title this much..

Chris Froome, 32, had previously triumphed in 2013, 2015 and 2016.  He sipped Champagne during the 21st and final stage after he all but secured victory by retaining the yellow jersey in Saturday’s time trial. He sealed his fourth title by finishing 54 seconds ahead of Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran, becoming the first person to win the race three times in a row since Spain’s Miguel Indurain in the early 1990s.

The only persons to have won titles than Froome are five-time champions Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.

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Froome described the Tour as “My toughest challenge yet”.

He said: “Each time I’ve won the Tour it’s so unique and so different and it is such a different battle to get to this moment.

“So they’re all special in their own ways and this year I think will be remembered for being the closest and most hard-fought battle between the general classification rivals.”

He further added: “There is something magical about the Champs-Elysees when you have spent three weeks thinking about being here in this moment.”

“It is amazing to see my wife and son again – it feels like more than a month on the road”

 

 

Froome’s win capped off a successful Tour for Team Sky – which topped the team classification by more than seven minutes.

 

A longer version of this story is available on Sky Sports.