Bradley Wiggins won the 2012 Tour de France, taking the yellow jacket and becoming the first cyclist from Great Britain to win the competition after 99 years of the races' existence.
Wiggins was victorious after finishing the entire tour in 87 hours 34 minutes and 47 seconds. He finished 3 minutes and 21 seconds ahead of fellow British cyclist Christopher Froome, who is also a part of the Sky Team.
They both shared the podium with Italian cyclist Vicenzo Nibali who finished the tour 6 minutes 19 seconds in front of both Wiggins and Froome.
As written by https://www.guardian.co.uk, many British cyclists had been close before and worn the yellow jacket days before the race. Cyclists like Sean Yates, Chris Boardman, David Millar and Tommy Simpson had been successful in individual races but never came close to winning the blue riband event.
Wiggins came close to winning the event in 2009. He was in fourth place. None of the cyclists mentioned above had that much success in the years of the tour.
The last stage, Rambouillet Paris-Champs Elysees, was 120 kilometers long. 15 players finished in 3 hours 8 minutes and 7 seconds.
Wiggins finished in 54th place but he was only nine seconds behind the winnner of the final stage.
