#AllezWiggo

What is there really to say?

Let’s start with Friday where Sky showed what happens when you finally let the world’s best sprinter free after he’s worked hard for the team through hundreds of kilometres of mountains. The break was out, and sprinting between themselves for the win as Bradley Wiggins tore round the last corner, leading the peloton and launching Cavendish from the pack to overhaul the two leaders by metres for a win that took him to an historic equalling of the career wins form sprinters in the Tour.

The power of the surge was summed up best as Sanchez sat up with a gesture of despair as he’d thought he was contesting the win with Roche only to have it spectacularly taken away as Cav smashed past on his right.

So that was five British stage wins and Saturday’s time trial was a chance to make it more.

The final two to go in the time trial were, as ever, the top two in the race. Froome went faster than anyone before, but saw his time beaten powerfully by a ride by Wiggins in the leader’s yellow skinsuit. Wiggins crossed the line punching the air having put more time into his rivals and extending his lead.

Barring accidents this meant a British 1-2 in the Tour de France, which was unthinkable a few years ago. The Sunday Times both jumped the gun a bit and managed to belittle the achievement with a headline that suggested that the Tour was done, and that the Olympics was the real goal. At that point the Tour was neither won, nor is it a smaller achievement in any way than the Tour.

Sunday also saw the final stage. Wiggins just had to make it to the end, but Sky were clearly out to do more. With everything from the twitter icon to the cars now in yellow they rolled into town. On the Champs Elysees a break threatened to stay out, but was ridden down by the sprinters teams eventually, putting Wiggins on the front at one Km to go, pulling hard, then Boasson Hagen, then Cav again, launched from a good 300m out.

Cavendish’s emphatic win summed up a Tour de France that was all about Sky. He made it four out of four wins on the Champs and Wiggins crossed the line a little back arms aloft, as much for Cav’s sprint as his own historic victory.

So. Bradley Wiggins is the first Briton to win the Tour, following to the letter the Team Sky plan of three years. More than that Froome came second (which would have been, in itself, a record without Bradley), Cavendish took three stages and Wiggins had two, with other British wins from Froome and Millar. Cavendish also secured himself as the Tour’s sprinter with most career wins in history.

The only real down-side was Lesley Garett embarrassing the whole nation with the national anthem.

It’s hard to see how this could have been a more successful Tour for Team Sky Procycling, British cycling overall and for Bradley Wiggins who has earned yet another place in history.

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