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David Millar
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Full nameDavid Millar
Height1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Weight76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st)
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DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeTime-trialist
Major wins
Tour de France, 3 Stages
Vuelta a España, 5 Stages
Giro d'Italia, 1 Stage TTT
Three Days of De Panne (2010)
Danmark Rundt (2001)
Tour de Picardie (2003)
National Individual Pursuit Champion (2006)
National Road Race Champion (2007)
National Time Trial Champion (2007)

David Millar (born 4 January 1977,[1][2] Mtarfa, Malta[3]) is a British road racing cyclist. He has won three stages of the Tour de France and two of the Vuelta a España. He was the British national road champion[4] and the national time trial champion,[5] both in 2007. He is the only British rider to have worn all Tour de France jerseys and one of four to have worn the yellow jersey.[6]

He was banned for two years in 2004 for taking drugs.[7][8]

Background

David Millar is one of two children of Gordon and Avril Millar. His father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and Millar was born while his father was based in Malta for a 3 year tour of duty. The family returned to the UK, and lived at RAF Kinloss in Scotland before moving to Aylesbury, 60 km north-west of London. 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. Millar considers Hong Kong as his home.[9] Millar moved to Hong Kong to join his father when he was 13. He rode in mountain bike races in Hong Kong "and did pretty well."[10] He bought a road bike in 1992 and raced at 6.30 in the morning before the island's roads began filling with traffic.

He chose mathematics, economics and geography as his A-level, pre-university, examination subjects, then switched to art, graphics and sports studies at his father's suggestion. He completed his A-levels and, having moved back to England to be with his mother in Maidenhead, enrolled at an arts college. He started cycling with the club in High Wycombe, west of London. His mother, Avril, took him there so that he would make new friends[11] and have something to do.[10] Millar showed talent and at 18, a week before he was due to start at the arts college, he went to race in France. He joined a club at St-Quentin, in the Picardy region, and won eight races.[12] Five professional teams[n 1] offered him a contract. He signed with Cyrille Guimard because his team, Cofidis, was based in the area[12] and he knew of Guimard's talent in recognising young talent.[10]

Early career

In his first professional season, Millar won the prologue of the Tour de l'Avenir and the competition for the best young rider in the Mi-Août Breton. He profited from his background in 10-mile time-trials in Britain to win the first stage of the 2000 Tour de France[13], a 16 km time-trial at Futuroscope. He held the yellow jersey for a few days. He failed to repeat his feat at Dunkirk in 2001 after puncturing in a bend and crashing. He finished fifth in the prologue in 2002 on a rolling course at Luxembourg. His attempt to win the prologue in central Paris in the centenary Tour of 2003 ended when his chain dropped off 500m before the finish. He lost by 0.14s to Brad McGee. Millar had ridden a bike without a front derailleur[n 2]. He blamed his directeur sportif, Alain Bondue. "It wasn't a problem with my chainring; it was a problem with my team," he told journalists at the finish. He said Bondue had tried to save a few grams by removing the derailleur. Bondue said he had told Millar to use a front derailleur after other riders had similar problems.[14][15] Bondue was demoted to logistics manager.[15]

Hopes of winning the Tour de France were fuelled by his stage win in the 2001 Vuelta a España, when he was in a breakaway with Santiago Botero on a mountain stage. However, Millar said that if he were to go for a Tour win, it would be only if he were certain of winning, not simply to do well.

Millar won a gold medal for Malta in the 2001 Games of the Small States of Europe [1], held in San Marino. Millar was selected for the Scotland team for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, but withdrew to compete for Cofidis instead.[16]

Doping

David Millar, Tour of Romandy 2007

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[17] at 8.25pm.[11] They took Millar's watch, shoelaces, jewellery, keys and phone.[18] Millar said:

"I was shocked, but I didn't think they had anything on me. I thought it was a waste of time - just a publicity stunt. They took me back to the apartment. They went in with a gun first, as if somebody was going to hit them with a back wheel or something. They sat me down and I wasn't allowed to move while they searched the house. They search while you're there. It took them four hours. I said to them: 'Why are you here?' They said: 'You know why - François Migraine.[n 3] Because of the interview with Migraine in L'Équipe.' They humiliated me and were critiquing my lifestyle, using a classic good cop, bad cop thing. It was psychological warfare. The bad cop literally hated me. He was saying: 'You're not a good person - we know that.' He said: 'You take three paces and I will bring you down like you're resisting arrest.' It was deliberate. I felt completely violated."

— David Millar, 2004 [18]

After two and a half hours they found empty phials of Eprex, a brand of the blood-boosting drug EPO, and two used syringes.[11][n 4] Millar said he had been given them as a gift at the Tour of Spain, that he had taken them to Manchester and used them. After that he had kept them as a souvenir.[18] The detectives took Millar to the prison in Biaritz and put him alone in a cell.[18]

The raid followed the arrest at the start of 2004 of Cofidis' soigneur, Bogdan Madejak[19]. Police looking to find more about the drugs he had turned to a rider in the team, Philippe Gaumont, as he arrived at Orly airport in Paris on 20 January 2004.[12][19][n 5] On 22 January 2004 the magazine, Le Point, published transcripts of police phone taps.[19]

David Walsh, writing in the Sunday Times in Britain, said:

"Gaumont accused Millar of encouraging the team's doctor, Jean-Jacques Menuet, to give both him and another rider, Cedric Vasseur, a doping product.[n 6] Gaumont said: 'Vasseur and I went to Menuet's room and were injected with a clear liquid. If Menuet agreed to do so, it was because Millar asked him to. He is the leader of the team, and leaders have such power.' Gaumont's statement implicated Millar in the police investigation into Cofidis. It was certain that the police would interview him."[11]

Gaumont said it had happened the day before the Tour finished on the Champs-Élysées in 2003, when Millar won the time-trial. Gaumont said he didn't know what was in the syringe but that "ça m'avait bloqué (that blocked me; i.e. kept me from going well)." Millar denied the claim to the investigating judge and said Menuet was the best person he had ever met and that he was "like a father to me at races."[12] He also denied Gaumont's claims that Millar had taken drugs trips by mixing Stilnox, a sleeping powder, with ephedrine, a stimulant.[12] He called Gaumont a lunatic and said he was talking "absolute crap."[20] But his phone calls had been tapped for four months[12] and he confessed to police[21]. He admitted using EPO in 2001 and 2003. He blamed it on stress, in particular losing the prologue, the opening time-trial, in the 2003 Tour, and being beaten by Jan Ullrich in the 2001 world time trial championship. Under cycling rules a confession equates to a positive test[21][22]. British Cycling suspended him for two years in August 2004. He was disqualified as 2003 world time trial champion, fined CHF2,000 '(approx. €1250)', and disqualified from the 2003 Dauphiné Libéré and 2001 Vuelta a España.[23] Cofidis fired him and dropped out of racing while it found which other team members were involved. Several Cofidis riders and assistants were fired. Alain Bondue, the team's director, and Menuet, the doctor, left the team.[20] Vasseur was forbidden to start the 2004 Tour de France but later cleared.

Millar failed in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce his ban, but the court backdated the suspension to the day he confessed, June 24, 2004.[24][25]

Millar was investigated in Nanterre in 2006 with nine other defendants, mostly from Cofidis. The court decided it was not clear he had taken drugs in France and that charges could not be pursued[26]. The doctor he had consulted (see below) lived south of Biarritz but across the Pyrenees, in Spain. Millar's statement to the judge, Richard Pallain, told of a man torn apart by the pressure of racing, the expectations placed in him by British fans, and an inability to make close friends. He said he despaired of cycling in 1999 and began going to parties. At one, he fell down stairs and broke a bone. It put him out of cycling for four months and he didn't get back to racing form until the following year. Winning the prologue of the Tour de France made things worse; he had worn the maillot jaune of leadership - his "dream", he said - and when it was all over he was back in his apartment with no friends and just a television for company.[12]

In 2001 he was in love with an Australian photography student.[27] Shari travelled from Brisbane to France to see him race but he crashed on the first day of the Tour de France. The rest of the race barely improved. Millar said in his statement to police:

"It was during this Tour and while I was going badly that I found myself one evening in the same bedroom as Massimilano Lelli and he said we were going to prepare ourselves for the Tour of Spain. He could see things were going badly between me and the team and that I wasn't even right within myself. I knew what he meant. He told me we'd go to Italy, and I knew what that implied. I took the EPO because I knew that the Cofidis team was going to the Tour of Spain on condition that I was at the start and that I rode well. Nobody put any pressure on me but I felt it nevertheless (...) I took drugs because my job was to finish in a good place in the results. There were magazines in England, sports journalists, television stations, and I didn't want to be criticised."

— David Millar, July 2004.[12]

Millar said he went to Australia with his fiancée at the end of 2001 and returned not wanting to ride a bike. Their relationship ended. He consulted Jesus Losa, the doctor of the Euskaltel team in Spain[n 7], and had more sessions of EPO in May and August 2003.[12]

"I put my life and my career in his hands and I gave him €12,000 a year. At the time, I was earning €250,000 in salary. That year, I won €800,000. The targets we had at the end of the EPO treatment were the Dauphiné Libéré and the world time-trial championship in Canada. I had taken EPO when I was in Manchester. The two syringes found at my house were the ones with which I injected myself while I was there. I kept them to remind me that I had become world champion at Hamilton while I was doped. I had dreamed of being a world champion but I had done it through trickery.

— David Millar, July 2004.[12]

Doping had gained him 25 second in the championship, he said.[28] He toasted his championship in the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas[29] But the suspension cost Millar his job, his income and his house. He said:

"You're 27 years old and you think you've got everything and then suddenly you have nothing - in fact less than nothing. I came back to England and started from scratch."

— David Millar, January 2006.[29]

He was drunk for much of a year[7][29]. He said he scraped by with the help of family and friends.

Post-suspension

Millar in the 2008 Tour of California

Millar moved to Hayfield, on the edge of the Peak District of northern England[28][29] to be close to the velodrome at Manchester where British cycling has its headquarters. He was quoted as saying:

"After a year without cycling, I came back thanks to my friends in the English [sic] track team who were training at Manchester. I trained with them and little by little I started feeling like a racing cyclist again."

— David Millar, 2007 [8]

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"After what David has been through over the past 18 months and what he has learned, I can't believe that he would take a risk again. He has been through hard times and I think that he's emerged as a wiser person."[29]

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"His comeback will raise hackles. There will be outraged letters from cycling's moral majority, who feel that all drug-takers should face life bans. Yet Millar has built a support network, ranging from his former trainer Mike Taylor to British Cycling's performance director Dave Brailsford, who has always felt his case to be a complex one deserving of understanding rather than condemnation.[n 8] Millar acknowledges that in one sense he is on a hiding to nothing. If he succeeds, there will be knowing nudges and winks. If he fails, ditto."[28]

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Millar was part of a five-man winning break on stage five of the 2008 Giro d'Italia when his chain broke in the last kilometre. He flung his bike away. In the 2008 Tour de France, Millar came third in the time trial on stage four, 18 seconds behind the 'winner' (who, ironically, was later to be stripped of this win due to doping). Overall he finished 68th, 1h 59m 39s behind Carlos Sastre. His best results of the season came in the 2008 Tour of California in which he finished second overall; he also helped orchestrate You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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"I would like the Union Cycliste Internationale to use me as an example. I think I'm in a position where I can stand on a soapbox and say I'm clean, it's all out in the open."

— David Millar, January 2006.[28]

Millar's 2009 season continued to bring solid performances in time-trials, though was hampered by injury in March 2009. He returned at the Giro d'Italia and put in an impressive performance at the subsequent 2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, finishing ninth overall. He competed in both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, completing a hat-trick of Grand Tour entries for the year. His best performance in a stage was first, achieved in the stage twenty time trial at the Vuelta. The race was Millar's first win for two years, and his fifth at the Vuelta.

Personality

"David is anything but a complicated guy. In his spirit, he is very British, very cool. That sort of mentality is very rare in cycling. In fact, he's a very emotional boy, very angry (bileux), who gives himself a lot of worries for no reason. David always needs someone to reassure him. You always have to be behind him to comfort him."

Alain Deloeuil, Millars directeur sportif at Cofidis in 2001 [34]

Millar is known for blunt comments, and he quit the Vuelta in 2002 to protest against the route and the course, which he considered dangerous. He had crashed several times and ripped off his race number and quit metres from the finish of the stage. William Fotheringham said Millar was always good for a piquant "if often foul-mouthed" quote full of "F and C words".[28] He described his dress sense as "artistic grunge-chic".

Millar accurately observed, when speaking about other riders:

"They give off the image of exceptional men but in fact they are very, very ordinary. Simple people without much education, who aren't fun to eat with (pas très rigilos à table), who don't get into intellectual discussions. All they have in life is cycling. Without that, it's finished."

— David Millar, 2007 [7]

The American author, Freya North, met Millar for her book Cat. She said he didn't look like a cyclist, "more like a cross between a snowboarder and a member of a student indie rock group."[35]

Career victories

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1997
1st Prologue, Tour de l'Avenir
1998
1st Prologue, Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 6, Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 3B, Three Days of De Panne
1999
1st Manx International, Isle of Man
1st Mountains Classification, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
2000
1st Stage 1, Tour de France
1st Stage 1B, Route du Sud
1st Youth classification, Circuit de la Sarthe
2001
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
1st Overall Danmark Rundt
1st Stage 5
1st Youth Classification
1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 4
1st Stage 5
1st Youth Classification
1st Stage 4B, Bicicleta Vaca
2002
1st Stage 13, Tour de France
2003
1st Stage 19, Tour de France[n 11][2]
1st Tour de Picardie
1st Stage 1 Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
1st Stage 4 Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos
1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España
2006
1st Individual Pursuit Champion British National Track Championships
1st Stage 14 Vuelta a España
2007
1st National Road Race Champion
1st National Time Trial Champion
1st Prologue Paris-Nice
2008
1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia
2nd Overall Tour of California
2009
1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España
1st Edinburgh Nocturne
Combativity award Stage 6, Tour de France
2010
1st Overall, Three Days of De Panne
1st Stage 3b ITT
1st Stage 3 Criterium International
2nd Stage 3 Critérium du Dauphiné ITT
Sporting positions
Preceded by British National Road Race Championships
2007 		Succeeded by

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  2. ^ Riders rarely need more than one chain-ring in a time trial but the cage of a front gear, which wraps round the chain, makes the chain less likely to lift off in high and low gears.
  3. ^ François Migraine was the chief executive of Cofidis, the money-lending company which sponsored Millar's team.
  4. ^ Some reports of the police search on 23 June 2004 say the syringes were on a book, others that they were in a hollowed-out book.
  5. ^ Stories had begun to spread of the Cofidis team after the discovery of a paper written for a learned journal by a psychiatrist who had spent time with the team. The paper didn't name Cofidis but it was possible, with other information, to drew a conclusion. The police started taking an interest. Gaumont had a history in cycling and the police concluded he would be a good man to question. He was stopped at Orly airport after 10 days' training in Spain. Gaumont saw no reason to be the scapegoat for things that went wider - the police suspected other riders and officials and sensed a network of drug-sellers and carriers - and he named names and gave a long account of what he said went on within the team. "I have been treated as an informer and a madman," he said. "That leaves me neither angry nor sad. I knew that one day I'd have to get it all off my chest. You don't drug yourself for 10 years with a smile on your lips."
  6. ^ Gaumont said: "Menuet's style was never to prescribe an illicit product, never to bring anything illicit, but if you brought these products to him, not only would he advise you about them but he was likely to administer them." Menuet said he refused to break medical confidentiality and did not comment. - Cyclisme - Le médecin de Cofidis mis en cause, http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme/20040409_094343Dev.html
  7. ^ Jesus Losa, the doctor of the Euskaltel team in Spain, was also named in court in July 2008 by the Spanish rider, Moises Duenas after his eviction from the Tour de France - Moises Duenas Blames Spanish Doctor For Positive Dope Test http://www.bicycle.net/2008/moises-duenas-blames-spanish-doctor-for-positive-dope-test. Losa denied his involvement, said Duenas had paid him only for nutrition advice, and said he had been named in the Millar case but not questioned.
  8. ^ Millar had been talking to Brailsford when police interrupted their meal at Bidart.
  9. ^ Floyd Landis was later disqualified from the 2006 Tour de France for taking drugs and the win was given to Óscar Pereiro, who finished 57 seconds behind him.
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  11. ^ Millar's victory on Stage 19 of the 2003 Tour de France was removed from his record at his own request due to doping

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  5. ^ "Millar takes the British Time Trial crown". BBC News. 3 September 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  6. ^ Fotheringham, William (2007-07-09). "Millar lights up home stage with climb to polka-dot jersey". guardian.co.uk. London. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
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  9. ^ L'Équipe, France, 3 July 2000
  10. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Cycle Sport, UK, May 2000 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ a b c d Sunday Times, UK, 27 June 2004
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j L'Équipe, France, 20 July 2004
  13. ^ Finish-line interview with Jean-Paul Ollivier, France 2 television
  14. ^ "Millar, manager squabble over mechanical". VeloNews. 2003-07-06. Retrieved 2007-06-30.
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  16. ^ Millar confirms Games withdrawal, BBC Sport, 25 July 2002
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  27. ^ Cycling Weekly, UK, 2001
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