Bradley Wiggins is all-but guaranteed to make history and become the first British champion of the Tour de France.
The three-time Olympic Champion looks set to do it in style too as he won the penultimate stage time trials.
Heading into to today the Team Sky man was two minutes ahead of his team mate Chris Froome in general classification and he finished the time trial in Chartres a minute ahead of the Kenyan-born cyclist to give him a near-unassailable lead.
It means it would take something extraordinary to happen in the largely processional final stage from Rambouillet to the Champs-Elysees to stop him retaining the yellow jersey.
Wiggins crashed out of the Tour last year with a broken collarbone and his win this year is vindication for the Sky team who invested so much in him.
There wasn’t as good news for Nicolas Roche, the Irishman finished 77th today which means he has dropped back to 12th place overall, while his cousin Daniel Martin will be happy with his first Tour, despite a chest infection that has plagued him, he is 35th in the overall classifications.
