Today's featured article Bradley Wiggins The 2012 Tour de France was the 99th edition of the race , one of cycling's Grand Tours . The 21 race stages , including the prologue , covered 3,496.9 km (2,173 mi), from the Belgian city of Liège on 30 June to the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July. Bradley Wiggins (pictured) from Team Sky won the overall general classification , becoming the first British rider to win the Tour. Wiggins's teammate Chris Froome placed second, and Vincenzo Nibali ( Liquigas–Cannondale ) was third. Wiggins maintained leadership of the race after stage seven, the first mountainous stage. The points classification was won by Nibali's teammate Peter Sagan , who won three stages, as did André Greipel of Lotto–Belisol and Team Sky rider Mark Cavendish . Team Europcar 's ...
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