It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

His father and mother divorced when Millar was 11 and his father moved to Hong Kong when he joined Cathay Pacific an airline based there. 2004: Doping
Millar was eating in a restaurant in Bidart near Biarritz on 23 June 2004 when he was approached by three plainclothes policemen of the Paris drug squad[citation needed] at 8. In the 2007 season Millar won both the British road and time trial championships and came second in the Eneco Tour 11 seconds behind Jose Ivan Gutierrez.

He has won five stages of the Tour de France two of the Vuelta a España and one stage of the Giro d'Italia. David Millar (born 4 January 1977 Mtarfa Malta) is a Scottish road racing cyclist riding for Garmin-Sharp. He was also the first (of two) British riders ever to have worn the leader's jersey in all three Grand Tours.