David Millar

Personal information
Full name	David Millar
Date of birth	January 4, 1977 (1977-01-04) (age 30)
Country	United Kingdom
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Weight	76 kg (167 lb)
Team information
Current team	Saunier Duval-Prodir
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time-trialist
Professional team(s)
1997–2004 2006–	Cofidis Saunier Duval-Prodir
Major wins
Tour de France, 3 stages Vuelta a España, 2 stages Danmark Rundt (2001) Tour de Picardie (2003) National 4000 m Pursuit Champion (2006) National Road Race Champion (2007) National Time Trial Champion (2007)
Infobox last updated on:
August 6, 2007

David Millar (born January 4, 1977 in Malta) is a Scottish road racing cyclist, currently racing for UCI ProTeam Saunier Duval-Prodir as a time-trial specialist.^[1] In 2008 he will be riding for Team Slipstream, and will become a part-owner.^[2][3] Among other accolades, he has won three Tour de France stages, two Vuelta a España stages, held the King of the Mountains jersey for a short time during the 2007 Tour de France. He is the 2007 United Kingdom National Road Race Champion^[4] and also the 2007 United Kingdom National Time Trial Champion^[5] . This will mean that he will constantly be in national jersey during stage races for the 2008 season with Slipstream. Red, white and blue Argyle print? Image File history File linksMetadata David_millar_and_plasma. ... is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The kilogram or kilogramme (symbol: kg) is the SI base unit of mass. ... The pound (abbreviations: lb or, sometimes in the United States, #) is a unit of mass (called weight in everyday parlance) in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... This article is about the country. ... Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on roads (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ... The UCI ProTour is a competition under the International Cycling Union (UCI). ... Saunier Duval-Prodir rider David Millar preparing for stage 11 of the 2006 Tour de France Saunier Duval-Prodir Team (UCI Team Code: SDV) is a Spanish road bicycle racing team, located in Cantabria, which is part of the UCI ProTour. ... Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle (UCI Code: TSL) is a UCI Professional Continental Team established in 2007 and based in the United States. ... The Tour de France is the worlds best-known cycling race, a 22 day long, 20 stage road race that is usually run over a distance of more than 3000km. ... The Vuelta a España bicycle race is one of the three Grand Tours of Europe. ... The King of the Mountains is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race. ... Stages in 2007 The 2007 Tour de France is the 94th Tour de France, taking place from July 7 to July 29, 2007. ... An example of the Australia and New Zealand national cycling jerseys The first two National Cycling Championships in 2007 took place in January, in Australia and New Zealand. ...

He has also raced and won gold for Malta, his country of birth, in the 2001 Games of the Small States of Europe [1], held in San Marino. Shortly before the start of the 2004 Tour de France, Millar confessed to the use of EPO. For this doping offence he was given a two-year ban. Member countries The Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) (Jeux des Petits Etats dEurope, Giochi dei Piccoli Stati DEuropa, Smáþjóðaleikar Evrópu, Juegos de los Pequeños Estados de Europa) is a biannual multi-sport event, that has been organized by the National Olympic... The 91st Tour de France (July 3 - July 25, 2004). ... EPO has several meanings: Erythropoietin (hormone) European Patent Organisation or its main organ the European Patent Office Emergency Power Off, the big red button for shutting off power in an emergency This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same...

Early career

Millar burst into the cycling scene as the young leader of the French team Cofidis by winning stage 1 of the 2000 Tour de France, and held the yellow jersey for a few days. He failed to repeat his feat in 2001 due to a crash, and finished fifth in the prologue in 2002. During his attempt to again win the prologue in 2003, his chain dropped a short distance from the finish due to the absence of a front derailleur, a decision which he blamed on directeur sportif Alain Bondue. He claimed that he lost the prologue because Bondue was trying to save a few grams by removing the front derailleur from his time-trial bike. Bondue countered by saying that Millar himself had made his own choice of equipment for the prologue and ignored advice from others to keep to traditional chain rings. ^[6] Cofidis is a French professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the insurance company Cofidis. ... Commercial version of maillot jaune, 2004 The Yellow jersey (French: Maillot jaune pronounced ) is the jersey worn by the leader of many multi-stage bicycle races, originally and most notably the Tour de France. ... Mountain bicycle with Derailleur gears 9x multiple sprockets of a Derailleur gear Derailleur gears are a gear system commonly used on bicycles, consisting of a chain, multiple sprockets and a mechanism to move the chain from one sprocket to another. ...

Hopes of him someday winning the Tour de France were fuelled by his stage win in the 2001 Vuelta a España, which saw him in a 2-man breakaway with Santiago Botero, on a difficult mountain stage of the Vuelta. However, Millar himself has been quoted as saying that if he were to challenge the general classification of the Tour de France, it would be only if he were certain of winning, not simply to get a top finish. He is known for his straightforward comments, and he quit the Vuelta in 2002 to protest the poor route selection and dangerous parcours. He had crashed multiple times and upon approaching the finish of the stage, Millar ripped off his race number and quit only meters from the finish line. The Tour de France is the worlds best-known cycling race, a 22 day long, 20 stage road race that is usually run over a distance of more than 3000km. ... The Vuelta a España bicycle race is one of the three Grand Tours of Europe. ... Santiago Botero Echeverry (born October 27, 1972 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian professional road bicycle racer. ...

Doping offence

He specialised in the individual time trial, and was preparing for competition in the track events at the 2004 Summer Olympics when police searched his house in June 2004, finding used Epogen syringes. Millar confessed to the use of EPO in 2001 and 2003. He blamed his use of EPO on his high level of stress, in particular having failed to win the prologue in the 2003 Tour de France and having been defeated by Jan Ullrich in the 2001 World Time Trial Championship, despite having raised his arms in the finale in confidence of winning. Ullrich had increased his tempo to make up his time deficit and beat Millar in the final section of the course. An Individual Time Trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: contre la montre - literally against the watch). There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials (TTT). ... Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics was split into three categories: Road, held on the streets of Athens. ... The ceremony for the lighting of the flame is arranged as a pagan pageant, with priestesses dancing. ... Epogen is the brand name of a form of Epoetin produced by the pharmaceutical company Amgen Inc. ... Erythropoietin (IPA pronunciation: , alternative pronunciations: ) or EPO is a glycoprotein hormone that is a cytokine for erythrocyte (red blood cell) precursors in the bone marrow. ... Jan Ullrich (born December 2, 1973 in Rostock, East Germany, now Germany) is a retired German professional road bicycle racer. ... The UCI Road World Championships, often referred to as the World Cycling Championships, is the annual world championship for bicycle road racing organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). ...

In August 2004 Millar was suspended for two years by British Cycling, stripped of his 2003 World Time Trial Championship rainbow jersey, given a CHF2,000 fine (approx. €1250), and was also disqualified from the 2003 Dauphiné Libéré and 2001 Vuelta a España races.^[7] He was also fired by the Cofidis team, which imposed a self-ban from competition in order to find team members who were involved in the scandal. In the end several riders and assistants were fired from the team for association with Millar's doping case. French rider Cédric Vasseur was also made a suspect in the case, and was forbidden from starting in the 2004 Tour de France, but later cleared from suspicion. An appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport was unsuccessful in reducing the length of the ban, but did backdate the suspension to when Millar had confessed, namely June 24, 2004, which enabled Millar to start the 2006 Tour de France.^[8] British Cycling logo British Cycling (shortened to BC, formerly known as the British Cycling Federation or BCF) is the national governing body for cycle racing for Great Britain. ... Tom Boonen, 2005 World Champion, wearing the Rainbow Jersey The Rainbow jersey is the distinctive jersey worn by the reigning world champion in a bicycle racing discipline. ... ISO 4217 Code CHF User(s) Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Campione dItalia Inflation 1. ... “EUR” redirects here. ... The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is an annual cycling road race, run over eight stages in the Dauphiné region in France during the first half of June. ... Cédric Vasseur is a French professional cyclist. ... The 91st Tour de France (July 3 - July 25, 2004). ... The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS; Tribunal Arbitral du Sport or TAS in French) is an arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sports. ... is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd Tour de France, taking place from July 1 to July 23, 2006. ...

Post-suspension

Although Millar's two-year suspension ended barely a week before the start of the 2006 Tour de France, he participated in the race after signing with the Spanish squad Saunier Duval. Millar finished 17th on the opening prologue time-trial at the 2006 Tour de France with a time of 8.31, and 11th on the penultimate, time-trial stage. He finished 59th overall (out of 139 riders who completed the Tour), +2 hrs 04:10 behind the yellow jersey winner Floyd Landis. The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd Tour de France, taking place from July 1 to July 23, 2006. ... Floyd Landis (born October 14, 1975) is an American cyclist. ...

In the 2006 Vuelta a España, Millar completed his comeback to top-level cycling with a win in Stage 14, a time trial around the city of Cuenca. The 61st Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from August 26 to September 17, 2006. ... Stage results and recaps of the Vuelta a España 2006 from Stage 12 to Stage 21. ... In many racing sports an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. ... Location of Cuenca in Spain Looking through an arch in old Cuenca Cuenca is a city (2004 pop. ...

On 3 October, determined to stage a comeback in professional cycling, Millar won the 4000 metres individual pursuit at the British championships with a time of 4min 22.32sec in the Manchester velodrome. is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... In track cycling, the individual pursuit is an event where two cyclists begin their race from a stationary position (nowadays held by gates, in the past, riders were supported by track officials until the starting gun fired) on opposite sides of the track. ...

Millar was taken to court by French authorities along with 9 other defendants in 2006, mostly from the Cofidis team, and faced charges of violating French drug laws. However, the French court ruled that as it was not clear that Millar had taken drugs while on French territory, charges could not be pursued^[9].

Following the 2007 Tour de France, during which he publicly condemned the use of drugs in cycling, newspapers reported that Millar was to join the US-based Team Slipstream, led by Jonathan Vaughters which has an aggressive anti-doping policy.^[10][11]. After the tour he won both the British National Road Race Championship and the British National Time Trial Championship . Team Slipstream powered by Chipotle (UCI Code: TSL) is a UCI Professional Continental Team established in 2007 and based in the United States. ... Jonathan Vaughters is an American former professional racing cyclist. ...

Career victories

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References

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External links

• Profile on official Saunier Duval-Prodir website
• Palmarès at Trap-Friis.dk