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Froome overcomes challengers and critics in claiming Tour de France victory

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.