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Chris Froome
Chris Froome won the Tour de France four times between 2013 and 2017, anchoring Team Sky's dominant run through cycling's biggest race during a decade when British cycling, historically a minor presence at the Tour, became one of the sport's most powerful forces. Froome's climbing style, an unusually high cadence combined with an aerodynamically unconventional but highly efficient position on the bike, made him one of the most recognizable riders of his generation, and his ability to attack decisively in the mountains while also holding his own in time trials gave him a complete skill set across the race's different stage types. His 2018 Giro d'Italia victory included an 80-kilometer solo attack on the Colle delle Finestre, one of the boldest and most unexpected winning moves in modern grand tour history, turning what looked like a losing position into the overall race lead in a single stage. Froome's career was interrupted by a serious 2019 training crash that left him with life-threatening injuries, and while he never fully returned to his previous form afterward, his four Tour titles across a five-year span place him among the most successful grand tour riders of the 2010s, a decade largely defined by his and Team Sky's methodical dominance.
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Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven consecutive times, from 1999 to 2005, a run that followed his recovery from testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs in 1996 — a comeback that made him one of the most celebrated athletes in the world during his active career, both for the wins themselves and the survival story behind them. In 2012, following a lengthy US Anti-Doping Agency investigation built partly on testimony from former teammates, Armstrong was stripped of all seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life after it was determined he had run what USADA called the most sophisticated doping program professional cycling had ever seen. Armstrong admitted to doping in a televised 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, confirming years of denials had been false, and the Tour de France has left the 1999-2005 general classification results largely vacant rather than retroactively awarding the titles to other riders, many of whom were later found to have doped as well. Armstrong's story remains one of the most significant cautionary tales in professional sports — a genuinely inspirational cancer-recovery narrative that drove his Livestrong Foundation's fundraising to hundreds of millions of dollars, ultimately undone by a doping scheme so extensive that it reshaped how cycling's governing bodies approach testing and enforcement to this day.
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