After three weeks of fierce racing and fending off determined challengers, Great Britain’s Chris Froome was finally able to celebrate his Tour de France victory.
PARIS — 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 Sunday, soaking up the applause 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.