Tour de France - Chris Froome arrives in Paris for race finale

Summary

Chris Froome secures third title
Froome becomes first Briton to defend title and win a third yellow jersey
Britain's Adam Yates finishes fourth overall
Germany's Andre Greipel wins final stage on Champs-Elysees
Chloe Hosking wins La Course in Paris
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'The baby is teething, so it's a difficult day!'published at 18:46 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
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Chris Froome's wife Michelle on ITV4: "I'm speechless. This edition was so much more emotional with having Kellan. He's teething at the moment so it's been a difficult day. I think what happened on Ventoux was the most emotional bit but it showed his fighting spirit. I'm just very proud of him."
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Theo Bowyer: Chapeau @chrisfroome ... Third #TourdeFrance victory!
Adam Bailey: A remarkable display of superiority by Chris Froome and Team Sky! Winning the #TDF is an amazing achievement, never mind three!
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Rob Hayles
Former GB cyclist on BBC 5 live sports extra
Andre Grepel finally shows the form that he desperately needed. If you are going to win one sprint stage on the Tour make it either the first - so you get the yellow jersey as well - or the last - so you get the glory in Paris.
Greipel goes full on Gorillapublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
A few yards away, Andre Greipel lives up to his nickname of the Gorilla by hoisting his bike above his head and waving it around like he's King Kong.
He's never failed to win a stage on a Grand Tour and today he keeps that record intact.
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Chris Froome is greeted by his wife Michelle, she has in her arms their son, wearing a yellow romper suit. Froome embraces his boy. An emotional moment for the Froome family in the midst of Parisian chaos, Britons and fans from all over the world applauding his efforts.
Chris Froome wins a third Tour de Francepublished at 18:36 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
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The cycling man. The running man. The smiling man. The unbeatable man.
The three-time Tour de France-winning man.
Just incredible, man.
Froome finishespublished at 18:36 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
Team Sky bring up the rear. They link arms, nine men who have achieved something very extraordinary. One man taking the pinnacle of the plaudits - he is Chris Froome and he wears yellow, sat in the middle of this chain of riders.
There it is, they cross the line. Froome has done it.
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Greipel wins on Champs-Elyseespublished at 18:34 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
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Kristoff is leading, but Greipel storms past him. Can Peter Sagan nick it? No. Greipel wins the stage!
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Greipel and Kristoff... one on one
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Lotto Soudal are dictating the front of the race for Andre Greipel. Marcel Kittel is sat behind Greipel. And here comes Alexander Kristoff... Sagan's still there.
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1.1km to go
Andre Greipel looks in a good position with four team-mates around him. Peter Sagan, a lone ranger, is lurking with intent.
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Rob Hayles
Former GB cyclist on BBC 5 live sports extra
This lead-out train has strung out the field like nothing else. It is a roasting pace.
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1.9km to go
Boom. An IAM Cycling rider hits the deck and moments later there's another crash, with a couple of riders going down. The peloton is becoming fractured.
Oh! Bryan Coquard is one of the men to come undone by those incidents - he won't be winning.
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3.4km to go
Chris Froome has to pump the legs to keep with the peloton - his job is not done yet. He doesn't want to lose any seconds.
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4.4km to go
They loop all the way around the Arc de Triomphe for the final time. No time to dwell on the moment though, as they go back down the Champs Elysees and head for the tunnel.
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5.4km to go
The incline up to the Arc de Triomphe is deceptively nasty and it offers the chance for some sneaky moves. Astana's Vincenzo Nibali does just that by splintering off to the right and a big chunk of riders goes with him.
Ding ding ding!published at 18:27 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
That's the bell. One more lap to go of this stage - 6.8km remain of the 2016 Tour de France.
Hold on to your helmets.
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7.2km to go
Van Avermaet and Lutsenko, you've had your fun boys, but time to get back in the peloton.
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We're gearing up for a sprint finish, on the Champs-Elysees, under sunshine that pours like wine on the French capital.
I could not be more excited.
Bardet front and centrepublished at 18:23 British Summer Time 24 July 2016
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No room for Chris Froome on the front page of French sportspaper of record L'Equipe today.
Instead Frenchman Romain Bardet - who will occupy second spot on the podium - makes the big picture.
Bardet's stage success on Friday helped head off the threat of a first Tour without a French day winner since 1999.
But it is 31 years since Bernard Hinault last won the whole caboodle for the host nation.