Bonjour and welcom𒐪e to the Cyclingn♕ews live coverage of the 21st and final stage of the 2014 Tour de France.

After three weeks of racing the riders of the Tour de F🐎rance🦋 are in Paris for the final stage of this year's race.

The riders have rolled out of E🌜vry and in the long neutralised sector of the race.

The riders will pass kilometre zero at 3:45 local time and be♕gin the 137.5km stag🦄e that ends with laps of the Champs Elysees.

The four jersey wearers are currently leading the p🐟eloton and posing for photographs.

For the first time Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) has maꦆtching yellow shorts to go with his leader's yellow jersey.

Peter Sagan (Cannondale) wears the green points jersey, Thibaut Pinot (Fdj.fr) wears the best young riders white 🍌jersey and Rafal Majka (Tinkoff-Saxo) wears the polka-dot mount🌜ains jersey.

All the Astana team has yellow bar tape for the final stage an𝐆d is riding together to celebrate Nibali's victory.

The tܫeam is about to toast Nibali's success with plasti♌c glasses of champagne.

The Astana line out with Nibali and down their champa💎gne. They deserve it after♏ working so hard. 

Nibali celebra𓂃tes with the Astana team cars an𝕴d the Tour de France race officials before heading back to the front of the peloton.

The othღer riders are rolling along, laughing, smiling and enjoying the satisfaction of having finished the Tour de France.

We will🍌 have a high-speed sprint at the end of the stage, with Marcel Kittel (Giant👍-Shimano) the big favourite to win again.

The stage is officially underway but the speed remains slow as the riders enjoy the moment. The speed will increase as the riders see the Tour Eiffel and💦 then race on the Champs Elysees.

At the moment Ki𓄧ttel seems more worried about putting on some sun screen than racing.

The riders have upped the speed an꧋d are rid🔯ing through the fields on the outskirts of Paris. The face the last small climb of the race after 30km of racing.

The Italian rider🌞s who have finished th꧟e Tour are now celebrating with Nibali.

The French are also celebrating today, with Jean❀-Christophe Peraud and Thibaut on the podium with Nibali.

Peraud is 37 and so perhaps past his best but Pinot is only 24 and will surely go onto challenge for success at the Tour for years to com꧒e.

Ag2r-La Mondiale 𝔉is also celebrating winning the team cl𒉰assification by posing together for photos.

The stage includes nine full laps ♐of the Champs♈ Elysees circuit.

Another contender for today's expected sprint finish is Fr🦄ench national champion Arnaud Demare (Fdj.fr). He's failed to make an impact in the sprints, with Kittel🍷 and Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) dominating the sprints.

The riders are being applauded as they head to t🔯he centre of Paris♌.

107km remaining from 137km

The riders are♊ still rolling slowly to wards Paris. The speed is below 30km/h but will touch 60km/h in the final lap of the race.

As so often in the past, the Astana is leading the peloton🥀, setting the tempo for the peloton.

The Lotto Belisol riders are also celebrating after the🦋 team announced that Soudal will step as the team's new second title sponsor.

100km remaining from 137km

The crowds are gathering𓂃 in th🍒e centre of Paris as the kilometres tick down.

Nibali is about to be crowned theꩲ winner of the 2014 Tour.

He has faced a series of doping questions but has always replied. Read what he said in his final press conference by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:clicking here.

The average speed for the first hour oꦡf racing was 32.2km/h. It's going to get much faster very soon.

Peter 𝐆Sagan (Cannondale) has dominated the green points jersey for a third year but has yet to win a stage this race. Can he fi🎐nish on a high in Paris?

Before the men🃏's stage the wo♚men raced on the Champs Elysees in the historic first edition of the La Course.

Read the full race report and check out the first race 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:photos here.

Team Sky had a difficult Tour de France after dominating the last two edꩲitions of the race.

The British team has already begun to study what went wrong and plan for 2015, when they will no-🌞doubt be back withꦏ Froome.

Read out interview with Performance coach Tim Kerrison here.

75km remaining from 137km

Astana is still leading the pelꦐoton, setting a steady pace.

What was♌ your favourite𝄹 moment of the 2014 Tour de France?

We selected the🃏 stage on the cobbles and stage 18 when Nibali🌄 won alone at Haustacam.

Let us know via our

We can se🃏e 𝓀the Tour Eiffel from the Cyclingnews blimp and so the riders will see it soon too.

56km remaining from 137km

Here we go. the riders are in 🅰the centre of Paris and heading to the Champs Elysees.

The ski🔥es are overcast but the racin💜g is about to heat up.

Sylvain Chavanel (IAM Cycliಌng) is the first to go off the front of the peloton on the Champs Elysee🧔s.

50km remaining from 137km

The speed is up! Here we go.

And there goes Jens Voigt!

The German veteran makes one last attack at♓ ꧟the Tour de France.

The peloton lets him go a little but others riders are also trying to attack♈.

Daniel here taking over from Stephen.

Voigt, in his last Tour, is leading the peloton by 8 seconds. Just like Hincapie he's given his chance to lead the race into Paris. Only this time he's not being chased down by a ๊single rider.

There are a number of counter attack now though with three riders with Van Averma🐓et included leading the chase. Sagan and Nibali remain well positioned near the front of the peloton.

There's been a crash and Peraud is down along with a few🍎 other riders.

Cheng is also down as we see Peraud back on his bike and riding agai♔n. Voigt has now been caught by a large chase group but they only have a few seconds over the main field.

42km to go as the race heads out from the tunnel. The gap to the break is at rꦓoughly two seconds although as Tuft powers them along. Thomas is here, Siebert too. There are around ten riders in total.

The race is back together 💖at ♏the front as Danny Pate sets the pace but Peraud is 22 seconds down on the peloton.

Peraud has made it back to the main field a꧋s we see Bakelants, out of contract this year, attack.

The Belgian is swiftly closed down but the bunch are lined out now as they dip close to the final 35km of racing in this stage and this✨ year's Tour de France.

The⛎re's now an acceleration from Porte and four riders h📖ave moved clear of the field.

Porte, Morkov, Serpa and one other rider have around 8 seconds as Astana set a steady pace. They're trying to keep the attacks down and 🧜the four leaders now have 11 secondsไ.

Fonseca is the fourth rider in the bre🧜ak and he takes a turn that helps them extendജ their lead to 20 seconds.

Giant Shimano with Kittel in mind are n𝐆ow setting the pace at the front 💦of the peloton.

They've been j🌊oined by Lotto as we see Peraud riding near the back of the field, his jersey cut to pieces. He's a lucky guy because that fall could have been a lot worse. He really needs to move up though.

Griepel is sitting in seventh wheel with most of his team leading the peloton. Peraud is finally starting to move up💖 as well.

Jurgen van den Broeck currently sets the pace with Lotto looking for their third stage win in this year's race. They've had a mixed Tour with Greipel and Gallopin winning, the latter wearing yellow🍷, but Van den꧂ Broeck hasn't had it in the mountains.

31km remaining from 137km

We're into the last 31km and the gap to the four leaders is 🔴now at 23 seconds.

🗹Kirstoff has a puncture but he should make it back to the bunch without too much effort. A few teammates would be helpful though, as we see them now drop back.

Deep down the Europcar team are starting🐓 to organise their train for Coquard to have one fi✃nal chance of winning a stage. The four leaders have 16 seconds with 27km to go.

Kristoff has made it back to the peloton - the chase took𝐆 longer than it should, as we see Greipel looking comfortable in fifth wheel.

Orica GreenEdge has joined the chase as we see a second group ofౠ four try and mo𓃲ve clear.

23km remaining from 137km

The rᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚace turns around the Arc de Triomphe once more and the bunch now just have four riders clear, Porte, Morkov, Serpa and Fonseca. All at 13 seconds withꦐ 23km go to.

We𝓰 now just have three leaders: Porte, Serpa and Morkov.

Rogers, back with the team cars is tossing his bidons into the crowd. He takes a couple of fresh ones from the♛ Tinkoff car as the break moves back out to 25 seconds with 20km left.

Cannodale haᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚve joined the chase though, so we have Lotto, Giant and Sagan's team setting the pace.

Durbridge has attacked from the field too but he's str🦩ugglin♈g to get a decent gap.

The Australian is 🔥quickly reeled in as Serpra, Porte and Morkov trade turns.

The chase has jumped up a notcജh as Giant lift the pace. Katusha and Kristoff have moved up too as Kittel and the rest of his team huddle near the front.

Tony Martin has pᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚunctured it seems and is back with the 🐽team cars.

15km remaining from 137km

Inside the final 15 of racing and༺ the gap holds at 15 seconds.

And Porte has attacked from the b🐟reak and he's clear with 13km to go.

The former Paris Nice winner has 9 seconds on the field as Moꦑr𓆉kov and Serpra sit up.

The Sky rider gains a couple of secondꦫs but the gap is only🎀 at 12 seconds with 12.5km to go.

Just 10k🧔m remaining and Porte holds just seven seconds as De Marchi leads the peloton.

Che🃏ng has now been lapped by the peloton after his earlier crash.

Porte looks back, he can see the🍬 bunch are closing in and it's almost 𒅌all over.

Ar💃ound Norwegian corner with 8.2km remaining and Porte is about to be shut down.

Tuft now sets the pace with one lap to go.

The Canadian pulls over and it's Lotto who lo🔜ok the most organised at this stage.

Giant line out on the right, Lotto on the left and Katusha, Eu♛ropcar and even Garmin move into play. Nothing 𝕴from Cannondale yet.

Arashiro is near the front but there's an attack from Orica with 5.1km to g🅷o.

It looks like Clarke and although he's fly🧜ing the bunch are so rapid. The Au🔜stralian does have a gap though with 4.4km to go.

It's all Lotto on the front though꧑ with Greipel in the best position.

3.7km for Clarke but here from Giant.

They've flooded the f🅘ront of the bunch and Clarke is caught.

Kittel looks down at his gears, 🧜time for one final check before the sprint.

Renshaw has O🍎mega i♈n the mix too as Cannondale appear too far back.

2.4km to go.

It's all Giant Shimano on the front.

But now Omega drive on.

With 1.8km to go.

Through the tunnel and Cannondale🐽 lead with Giant and Lotto there.

It' ꦗall Omega on the front and there's almost a cr♍ash.

Giant lead around the final corner.

Here comes 𒁏Kristoff. He's leading with 100 to go. Can Kittel come back?

The German is closing in on Kri♛stoff, Gr🃏eipel is out of it.

Here comes Kittel in full flight. And he༺ takes it.

Marcel Kittel wins by just over a wheel but he ෴had to do it the hard way after Kristoꦐff went first.

And at the line 💞Nibali is mobbed by his wife, his baby daughter is there, and even Vino, who helps draw the Italian Tour winner closer to his famil🅘y.

1 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Team Giant-Shimano 3:20:50
2 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha 0:00:00
3 Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Garmin - Sharp 0:00:00
4 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto-Belisol 0:00:00
5 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:00
6 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team Sky 0:00:00
7 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar 0:00:00
8 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:00
9 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale 0:00:00
10 Romain𒁃 Feillu (Fra) Bretagne - Seche Environnement 0:00:00

Final general classification
1 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team 89:59:06
2 Jean-Christophe Péraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:07:37
3 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr 0:08:15
4 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 0:09:40
5 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:11:24
6 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:11:26
7 Leopold Konig (Cze) Team Netapp-Endura 0:14:32
8 Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) Trek Factory Racing 0:17:57
9 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling 0:18:11
10 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling 0:21:15

The riders have now started to make their way to the team buses and soon they'll start a ꧂lap of honour.

But now Kittel makes his way onto the podium in Paris for the second year in a row. That's four stages for the German and se🦄ven stages for Germany in this Tour de France - a new record.

Sagan is next up as he collects the green jersey while Kittel praises his team in a post-race 𓆏interview.

Majka is followed by Pinot onto the podium. Next up will be Vincenzo Nibali. It's time to call it a day here but thanks for following througout the Tour de France this year. You can find our report, results, and race photos from today, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:just here.