A celebratory precession into Paris. A time to celebrate and appreciate the work each surviving rider has gone through in order to reach this point over the last three weeks.

Team Plan: Well this should just be a sprint... hmmmm...

This is the race leader and winner. Cadel Evans. He has had 10 stage wins. Completely crazy. And now he gets to go home and spread the word about his utter domination.

Two early attackers over the KOM were Frolinger and Westra.

Our team just hung out at the front of the peloton. BMC was doing most of the pacing as they drank their wine, Radioshack was there as well.

Tons of riders attacked from all different team was they had gotten in their alcohol.

And as the break kept continuing to get larger, the remaining teams in the peloton started to want them back.

A Saxo rider attacked as the rest of the break was swept up.

Stuart O'Grady attacked after him.

This is the back of the peloton. the camera's have rarely gone back here this Tour, but today they do. Some of the riders here have never seen the front of the peloton. But they fought for the Tour anyway.

A few more riders countered. In the break as they hit the Champs Elysees was Frolinger, Westra, Casar, and O'Grady. The Saxo rider was blown away.

The break was brought back and there was a lull with 25 km to go. And they 6 riders stormed out of the pack! And they were all from Ag2r! We were team attacking to take control and get Peraud the top 5! A gutsy and risky tactic!

Buuuuuuuut no. We were brought back pretty easily within 5 km of attacking, and now all of our guys were gutted for the final sprint.

Meanwhile Lotto were up front pushing hard for Greipel. Garmin also was well represented. But as you can see, Cavendish was 20 riders back at least and isolated.

Then Lotto just pulled away. Their train actually had a time gap to the rest with 3.5 km to go. Farrar and Garmin were trying to get organized behind. Goss was also up there with a rogue Sky rider that looked like EBH. His teammate Cavendish was nowhere to be seen.

Henderson was doing the final lead out for Greipel with 2km to go. Meanwhile, Garmin had gotten organized, and Hunter was leading out Farrar. Goss was tagged onto that train, and Petacchi was trying to make the selection.

With 1.5 km to go they opened up the final sprints! Grepel look untouchable, the race was still coming behind. Petacchi was driving on the right, carrying the Slovakian Peter Sagan with him. Farrar and Goss were int he middle duking it out. it was all a question of momentum.

Grepel didn't even need to kcik, he was still ahead with 500 meters to go. Farrar had surged past the rest and was trying to come over the top with every last ounce of energy, but he was running out of road. Sagan still wasn't able to jump out of Petacchi's slipstream, and Goss was fading. Maybe he went too deep at the intermediate sprint. Freire was trying to pass him out of the shadows.

Andre Greipel wins on the Champs Elysees in Paris!

Andre Greipel took the final stage . Farrar finishes second and mad up a lot of ground at the end. Alessandro Petacchi comes in third ahead of Sagan, who never actually launched his final sprint. Mark Cavendish never featured, coming in 14th.

There wasn't any doubt at all after the first couples of his wins. But then he had 8 more. In the end, he had no one within 5 minutes of him, and only 1 person within 10. A total crushing of his opponents. Bradley Wiggins finished 2nd, and Frank Schleck rounded out the podium.

JCP finished in the pack and ends up 6th. We missed our goal of a top 5 by the slimmest of margins, but we played all our cards and can be satisfied with our efforts. We also had Roche in 13th. 6 of our riders finished the race, and 157 finished in all, the Lantern Rouge being Anthony Delaplace, 5 and a half hours behind.

Along with Yellow, Evans also gets green. Cavendish got to wear it most of the race, but he won't get to take it home.

Rein Taaramae was the rider that was most skilled and dedicated to go in the breaks and risk everything. In the end, Roche was always too high up overall to make the necessary breakaways, and finished 6th in the competition.

Stephen Kruiswijk won the young riders jersey. Despite working for his team leader Gesink the entire race, he was able to stay in front of his opponent Tejay Van Garderen, who lost a lot of time in an early crash.

Radioshack held the team standings for basically the whole race, led by Frank Schleck, who finished 2rd overall. Ag2r was 6th.