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At the age of 39, seven times Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong appeared on the podium in Paris for the last time at a Grand Tour event with his winning Radio Shack team after Stage 20 of the 2010 event.

Although British rider Mark Cavendish easily won the sprint to secure the final stage, it wasn’t enough to win him the coveted Green Jersey on the Champs-Elysees.

After their recent victory in the World Cup against Holland and Rafael Nadal’s win at Wimbledon, another Spanish conquistador Alberto Contador secured a hat-trick of triumphs for his mother-country as he finally extinguished Andy Schleck’s brave attempt to win his first Grand Tour title in the time-trial from Bordeaux to the vineyards of the Medoc region.

After 3,500 kms, from the low-lands of Belgium through the mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees and finally into Paris, only 39 seconds finally separated the two iron-men of cycling.