The battle on the bike that is the Tour De France has been won by Bradley Wiggins and on the greatest day ever for British cycling, Mark Cavendish won the final stage for the fourth time.
The final stage of the world's greatest cycle race, stage twenty was a 120km stage from Rambouillet to Paris Champs-Elysees.
After all the hard work, which has seen five stage wins by four British riders, the Team Sky riders were in great spirits as Bradley Wiggins in a yellow jersey and black shirts, led the riders out on this final stage, along with second placed Chris Froome as well as Young Rider winner Teejay Van Garteren, Green Jersey winner 22 year old Peter Sagan, King Of The Mountains winner Tommy Voeckler, Most Aggressive rider Chris Anker Sorensen and BMC's George Hincapie in his 17th and final Tour De France.
The procession continued through the climbs of the Cote de Saint Remy les Chevrouse and the Cote de Chateaufort before the Paris Department on the D1 was reached with 57kms to go.
The riders entered the circuit of which there was eight and a six kilometre lap to the finish line with 51kms to go.
George Hincapie (pictured below) was shoved to the front by Team Sky to lead the riders onto the Place De La Concorde and Champs-Elysees for the first time.
With the parade over and on streets lined with Brits, attacks started to happen, a Lampre rider in Daniel Hondo and Jens Voigt of Radio Shack got 100m away. Lars Bak caught up with them.
Hondo took the day's intermediate sprint and the twenty points, a kilometre into the third lap, followed by Voigt and Jerome Pineau of FDJ.
A group of eleven riders featuring Voigt (RNT), Minard (ALM), Lund (STB), Bak (LTB), Burghardt (BMC), Edet (COF), Tankink (RAB) Ignlinkiy (AST) and Kuchynski (KAT) then took to the front.
They pulled out a thirty second lead, which was down to 25 as they went over the finish line for the sixth time.
Sebastian Minard, Rui Costa and Jens Voigt were still clear with ten to go ahead of the peloton now led by Peter Sagan's Liquigas team.
Their lead was fifteen seconds as the riders started the final lap. Teams started to move their sprinters up before there was a crash with 3.6kms to go taking down a Lampre and AG2R rider.
The trio were caught with 2.7kms to go. The speed shot up as Saxo Bank and Team Sky with Wiggins on the front battled it out.
Into the last kilometre, Wiggins was doing the lead out. He pulled off and let Boasson Hagen take Cavendish up for a bit before Mark Cavendish took a long sprint to win in a time of 3.08.07 ahead of Sagan, Goss and JJ Haedo.
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Cavendish said to ITV4's Ned Boulting: "It's the first time in this tour that there has been pressure on us but it worked. "It's so great to see Bradley Wiggins in yellow and Froome in second. "I said I'm gonna go early and see what happens and it came off. "It's incredible. It couldn't be more perfect. It couldn't be a better end to an amazing tour. "This was the cherry on the top."
Wiggins came home to take the race ahead of Chris Froome in a time of 87.34.47, 3.21 ahead of Chris Froome and 6.19 ahead of Nibali.
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