The 2014 Tour de France was the 101st edition of the race, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,660.5-kilometre race included 21 stages, starting in Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, on 5 July and fini
The team presentation ceremony took place inside the First Direct Arena in Leeds, United Kingdom, on 3 July
Stage five, between Ypres, Belgium, and Arenberg Porte du Hainaut, featured sett paving sections used in the one-day race Paris–Roubaix.
Marcel Kittel (Giant–Shimano) gained the third of his four race stage wins in stage four's bunch sprint finish at Lille's Stade Pierre-Mauroy stadium.
Rafał Majka's (Tinkoff–Saxo) victories in the high mountain stages of fourteen and seventeen helped him win the Tour's polka dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification.
Christopher Clive Froome is a British former professional road racing cyclist. He has won seven Grand Tours: four editions of the Tour de France, one Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España twice. He ha
Froome in 2017
Froome at the 2007 Tour of Britain, during his first season as a professional
Froome on the 2008 Tour de France's final Champs-Élysées stage in Paris, riding in his first season for Barloworld
Froome and Juan José Cobo, on stage 19 of the 2011 Vuelta a España. Cobo was subsequently disqualified for doping, and Froome declared the winner.