PARIS (AP) — All for one, one for all, and all bathed in yellow.
Arms over each other’s shoulders, linked together in a long line of happiness, Tour de France winner Chris Froome and his teammates pedaled slowly over the finish line, soaking up the applause Sunday on the Champs-Elysees.
Three weeks of furious racing, of beating back both a tenacious Colombian, Nairo Quintana, and doping suspicions that are Lance Armstrong’s poisonous legacy to cycling, were over.
Time for the winner’s speech.
“The Maillot Jaune is special, very special,” Froome said, using the yellow jersey’s French name.