Stunning Scenes from the 2014 Tour de France

SI Staff | Jul 29, 2014

Stunning Scenes from the 2014 Tour de France /

Stunning Scenes from the 2014 Tour de France

The pack passes a bridge spanning Durance river in Sisteron during the fifteenth stage.

USA's Peter Stetina (back) rides in the pack above the word "GO" and a heart on the road during the 124.5 km seventeenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France cycling race.

Peloton on "Chemin des dames" during Stage 6 of the Tour de France.

Nicolas Edet (L) of Team Cofidis Solutions Credits rides during Stage 7 of the Tour de France.

The pack speeds down Tourmalet pass during the eighteenth stage.

Nicolas Edet of Cofidis, Rein Taaramae of Cofidis and Michal Kwiatkowski of Omega Pharma-Quickstep in action during the eleventh stage.

Italy's Vincenzo Nibali wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, rides with his Kazakhstan's Astana teammates during the 185.5 km twelfth stage.

Team Astana with overall leader Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, second left with the Italian flag on his jersey, trains on the second rest day of the Tour de France.

Italy's Vincenzo Nibali wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, rides in the pack behind his Kazakhstan's Astana teammates during the 185.5 km twelfth stage.

Vincenzo Nibali of Team Astana Pro during Stage 12 of the Tour de France.

Vincenzo Nibali of Italy and the Astana Pro Team in the overall race leader's yellow jersey follows his team in the peloton over La Saone River during the twelfth stage.

France's Romain Bardet speeds down Val Louron Azet pass during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France.

Italy's Vincenzo Nibali wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, Austria's Bernhard Eisel and Australia's Richie Porte ride in the pack past a sunflowers field during the 197.5 km thirteenth stage.

Horse riders are pictured as the pack rides behind during the 234.5 km seventh stage.

The peloton pass through Sisteron during the fifteenth stage.

France's Jean-Christophe Peraud, front, speeds down Tourmalet pass during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France.

Race leader Vincenzo Nibali of Italy rides through the French countryside.

The pack rides past a sunflowers field during the 197.5 km thirteenth stage of the 101st edition of the Tour de France.

Peloton in Sisteron during Stage 15.

The pack rides during the 237.5 km sixteenth stage.

Jan Barta of the Czech Republic, right, and Netherlands' Lieuwe Westra during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race.

The chase group in action during the seventeenth stage.

Poland's Rafal Majka wearing the best climber's polka dot jersey rides in a breakaway during the 124.5 km seventeenth stage. J

Spain's Jesus Herrada Lopez rides in the pack during the 145.5 km eighteenth stage.

Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, strains during the twentieth stage.

Perrig Quemeneur of France and Team Europcar leads riders on the descent of the Col du Tourmalet during the eighteenth stage.

Cyclists ride under a heavy rain during the 208.5 km nineteenth stage.

The peloton in action during the nineteenth stage.

The pack passes under a bridge during the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France.

The race leader and yellow jersey Vincenzo Nibali of Italy and Astana Pro Team rides flankled by his teammates during the nineteenth stage of the 2014 Tour de France.

Poland's Rafal Majka wearing the best climber's polka dot jersey rides during the twentieth stage.

Thibaut Pinot of France and in action during the twentieth stage.

The pack rides past the Louvre Pyramid in Paris during the 137.5 km twenty-first and last stage.

The pack, with Vincenzo Nibali of Italy, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, left, rides through the courtyard of the Louvre museum.

2014 Tour de France cycling race winner Italy's Vincenzo Nibali, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates on the podium.

Published Jul 29, 2014

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