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Nibali Completes Tour De France Triumph

Vincenzo Nibali completed overall victory of the Tour de France by safely negotiating a tense final stage into Paris won by Marcel Kittel.

Nibali crossed the finish line on the Champs Elysees in the peloton to seal a dominant 7min 52sec victory over Jean Christophe Peraud, who recovered from a crash with 43km remaining to consolidate second place overall.

Kittel claimed his second consecutive victory on the Champs Elysees widely regarded as cycling most prestigious sprint and fourth win of this year Tour after beating Alexander Kristoff into second and Ramunas Navardauskas into third.

Kittel said: tried to pass Kristoff at the end and at one moment he couldn accelerate any more, and that was my moment to pass him just before the finish line. I am super proud and very happy. his victory speech, Nibali said: that I am here on the top step of the podium, it is more beautiful than I could ever have imagined. I have worked towards this for a very long time. Now I have managed to achieve this goal. 137.5km final stage began in Evry and was largely processional up until the riders reached the finishing circuit in Paris, with Nibali posing for photos with his Astana team mates and receiving the congratulations of his fellow riders.

However, when racing began with 56km to go, the stage suddenly became treacherous as teams looked to put riders in the breakaway, ramping the pace up in the process and stringing the bunch out in a long line.

All of the general classification riders were merely looking to stay safe and preserve their places in the overall standings, but Peraud crashed heavily and became cut adrift of the marauding peloton.

Nibali rode to the front of the bunch to ask the pace setters to slow down and van cleef ans arpels clover diamond necklace replica wait for Peraud, and although riders continued to attack, the main body of the peloton backed off sufficiently to let the Frenchman rejoin around 6km after his fall.

Things settled down further when a four man breakaway moved clear shortly after, and although Richie Porte then attacked from that group with 13.5km to go, his was reeled in by the main pack 6km later as the sprint teams successfully set up their desired bunch finish.

Kittel Giant Shimano team turned the last corner in pole position, but Katusha Kristoff fake van cleef alhambra White Gold Pendant launched his sprint early and surged past and into the lead. It looked like he would narrowly hold off Kittel, only for the German to find a second kick in the last 75m and win by a half a wheel.

Nibali puffed out his cheeks in relief as he followed them over the line in the main bunch, while Rafal Majka, Peter Sagan and Thibaut Pinot all also managed to stay safe to seal victory in the mountains, points and best young rider classifications respectively.

Stage 21 result

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Giant Shimano, 3:20:502 Alexander Kristoff (Nor)Katusha, same time3 Ramunas Navardauskas (Lth) Garmin Sharp, st4 Andr imitation Van Cleef & Arpels Clover necklace Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol, st5 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Omega Pharma Quick Step, st6 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Sky, st7 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Europcar, st8 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Omega Pharma Quick Step, st9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale, st10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Bretagne S Environnement, st1 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana, 89:58:462 Jean Christophe Peraud (Fra) Ag2r La Mondiale, +7:523 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ, +8:244 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar, +9:555 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC, +11:446 Romain Bardet (Fra) Ag2r La Mondiale, +11:467 Leopold Konig (Cze) NetApp Endura, +14:418 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Trek Factory Racing, +18:129 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin, +18:2010 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin, +21:24

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