Cavendish wins on Champs-Élysées as Contador takes 2009 Tour de France

Mark Cavendish wins on the Champs-Élysées to take his sixth stage of the race - Alberto Contador wins the overall - Lance Armstrong finishes on the podium in his comeback year (a result he is later stripped of) - Bradley Wiggins finishes in fourth place in first GC attempt, fuelling belief in UK that he could one day win the Tour.

Mark Cavendish wins, Tour de France 2009, stage 21

Mark Cavendish was expected to become the first British rider to win the final Tour de France sprint on the Champs-Élysées but nobody could have expected him to win by so much.

Cavendish confirmed his status as the fastest sprinter in the world and his team mates proved yet again that they are perhaps the best ever lead-out train in cycling.

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