The Tour de France  - 2015

Tour de France 2015 - Froome joins the greatest By winning the 2015 Tour de France, British rider Chris Froome has joined the small elite band of cyclists who have taken cycling's greatest prize more than once.

Sunday 26th August. Chris Froome set to be the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France twice.
Follow today's action from 4.15 pm to 7pm (French time) on ITV4,  France2 television,  La Une in Belgium,  NOS in the Netherlands, ZDF in Germany and many more.
Starts 3.15pm  and finishes around 6.pm UK time

The 2015 Tour de France ended in Paris on Sunday 26th July.
Two days before the race to the finishing line up the Champs Elysées, the tension was high. In France eyes were on Romain Bardet, who moved up into the top 10 places after winning the mountain stage on July 23rd; in Britain, supporters were rooting for another British win with Chris Froome, who has been wearing the coveted "yellow jersey" for most of the race so far, and is leading the pack; but on Friday, second-placed Nairo Quintana, from Columbia, narrowed the gap with Froome to just 2 mins 38 secs. Spanish enthusiasts were hoping that Froome could be caught and overtaken by Valverde or Contador, respectively 3rd and 5th at the end of stage 19; while Dutch riders Gesink and Mollema were also battling it out among the top ten places.
  Two days before the end of the race, Froome's  lead over second-placed Quintana was down to just over two and a half minutes, but a total of over 17 minutes now separated the top ten riders. Barring any accident, Froome and Quintana looked assured of a place on the podium at the end of the race; but there were several potential contenders for the third place.
   The 2015 Tour started on July 6th, and this year it has followed an unusual route. Apart from the final Paris leg, riders will not see anything of France between Brittany and the Pyrenees, or between Amiens and the Alps.  Excluding stages 13 to 16, riders will have spent almost all their time less than fifty miles from the northern French coast, or from the Spanish or Italian borders.    
   After starting on 4th July in Utrecht, Holland, and after a brief incursion inland in Belgium, the northern stages of the race were limited to the regions bordering on France's northern coastline..
   From the stage finish on 7th July in Cambrai, near the Belgian border, riders moved generally southwest as far as Vannes in Brittany, reached on 12th July; and that is the end of events as far as the northern half of France is concerned – barring of course the final sprint to the finish on the Champs Elysées in Paris.
  From 14th to 25th July 2015, the Tour de France has been a "Tour du Midi", or tour of the south of France. Three days in and around the Pyrenees are followed by four days crossing over the southern fringe of the Massif Central, via Rodez  Mende and Valence, to the Alps. Then four days in the Alps, after which riders fly back to Paris for the final day's sprint.