Complete happiness for the team on Sky Champs: Mark Cavendish has signed its fourth win in a row, while Bradley Wiggins won the 2012 Tour de France, a first for British cycling.
The feast Sky has no limits. This 99th edition was archidominée by the British team and this last act on the Champs-Elysees has only increased that feeling. Mark Cavendish still untouchable when it can deploy its extraordinary speed, has once again outperformed the competition at the foot of the Arc de Triomphe. For the fourth consecutive time, the Manx outweighs the fields, where no one had ever won with the world champion's jersey on his back. His triumph is coupled with another, even more exceptional, as for Sky to British Cycling: Bradley Wiggins is the winner of the Tour 2012, a first for his country.
Promenade transformed the British, the Champs-Elysées thus completed the harvest of Heaven by Dave Brailsford. Final victory, the top two spots in the general classification (first since 1996) and no fewer than six stage wins, the last three. Hard to beat. As a symbol, Bradley Wiggins in person made a point of honor to serve as Sunday Cavendish Parisian sun.At a little over a kilometer from the finish, it is he, like Friday in Brive, who produced a huge effort to prevent anyone from posting in the lead. Edvald Boasson Hagen then took over, before the rocket Cavendish does not charge to enter. Peter Sagan, Matthew Goss and Juan Jose Haedo, in that order, have made their sprint in their corner, for second place.
And 23 for Cavendish
With his third success, Mark Cavendish rises to the height of Sagan and Greipel (only eighth on Sunday). It is his lowest score since his debut on the Tour in 2008. This means if the average is staggering. There he is now pledged twenty-three stage wins, one more than Lance Armstrong and Andre Darrigade. Fourth in the hierarchy of the Tour's history, he will attempt next year to pick André Leducq and Bernard Hinault, now in his sights. There will always be so, then, take care of Eddy Merckx and his thirty-four wins. At the rate he is going, Cavendish could join him at the 2015 Tour.He is, slowly, to mark the great history of the Tour.
For Bradley Wiggins, it's done. This last step, as usual, was a formality for the yellow jersey.Rambouillet to the Champs-Elysées, the Londoner could enjoy, enjoy, and even receive the congratulations of many of his colleagues. Starting with Cadel Evans, his predecessor on the list.Good prince and a good sport, the Australian was keen to give a hug to Wiggins. An Englishman in yellow in Paris, the first new high after the first coronation of kangaroo Evans in 2011. Cycling more than ever the Anglo-Saxon accent. In a few days to the London Games, the Sky Boys of his Majesty, Wiggins and Cavendish in mind, try to play the hero again, to become prophets in their country after conquering Paris.