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          David Millar (born 4 January ) is a Scottish retired professional road racing cyclist....

          David Millar: ‘The irony is, I no longer fit in. Cycling has become robotic’

          There are various ways of putting David Millar’s personal voyage through cycling since into context, but the most salient one is that on Sunday, the Scot will start his last race as a professional after 17 seasons in the saddle.

          He can boast 10 solo stage wins and two team time trial stage victories in the three Grand Tours, a plethora of wins in smaller stage races and.

        1. He can boast 10 solo stage wins and two team time trial stage victories in the three Grand Tours, a plethora of wins in smaller stage races and.
        2. David Millar was born in Malta in He is a British road racing cyclist and the only British rider to have worn all Tour de France jerseys and one of four.
        3. David Millar (born 4 January ) is a Scottish retired professional road racing cyclist.
        4. WORLD-CLASS CYCLIST, Tour de France stage winner, and time trial specialist David Millar offers a vivid portrait of his life in professional.
        5. David Millar was a professional cyclist for 18 years, and was the first Briton to wear the leader's jerseys in the Tour de France, Vuelta a España, and Giro d'.

          6. In a sport where it was once estimated that the length of the average career lasted two and a half years, that is an eternity.

          Not surprisingly, Millar lists as his proudest achievement the fact that he is still pedalling at the age of 37, “that I made it through and finished when I am still loving it, even if it’s a different, more mature love than the blind love I felt in my youth”.

          His farewell year has been a tough one; he will end it with a broken right hand sustained in one of the worst crashes of his career close to the end of the Vuelta a España. Getting through that race has damaged his fingers to the extent that his next appointment will be in an operating theatre.

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