Briton Chris Froome Wins Tour de France
July 27, 2015,
The pack, with Britain’s Chris Froome wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, rides down the Champs Elysees in Paris during the 102nd Tour de France cycling race. Credit: © Christophe Ena, AP Photo
Cyclist Chris Froome of Team Sky won his second Tour de France yesterday, making him the first British cyclist to win the Tour twice. The race is run each year for more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers). This year, the 102nd edition of the race, began on July 4 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The race always ends on the Champs Elysees, a famous avenue in Paris. The Tour de France is one of three major touring races of cycling, the others being the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España.
The Tour de France race is divided into 20 days, called stages. The 21st stage of the Tour, in Paris, is ceremonial and not actually part of the race. The rider who leads at the end of a racing stage wears a yellow jersey for the next stage and continues to wear it until he loses the lead. Chris Froome captured the yellow jersey for stage 4, and again at stage 7. After stage 7, Froome held the yellow jersey to the end of the race.
Froome was challenged in the last few stages by a 25-year-old from Colombia, Nairo Quintana, riding for Team Movistar. Quintana’s time was 1 minute 12 seconds behind Froome’s time of 84 hours 46 minutes 14 seconds.
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