Chris Froome will close on the Tour de France’s greatest champions when he rides into Paris on Sunday to clinch his fourth victory in cycling’s most prestigious race. Now, only Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain—all with five wins—have won more Tours than Froome. Of course to have won it once (in 2013), the novelty was to be a Tour de France winner -- that was massive,” he said. “It was definitely never secure until I was over this line in Marseille,” Froome said on Saturday. “Every Tour de France is hard, but to say one’s harder than the others is difficult.”It won’t just be Froome celebrating on Sunday.

Source: The Standard July 23, 2017 12:22 UTC