Chris Froome wins Tour de Romandie final stage and overall title

Chris Froome takes final time trial stage win to seal overall victory in Tour de Romandie

Chris Froome on stage five of the 2014 Tour de Romandie

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Following Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) and Mark Cavendish's (Omega-Pharma Quick-Step) respective overall and stage wins in the Tour of Turkey earlier this afternoon, Chris Froome (Sky) completed an exceptional day for British cycling by winning the time trial stage and the overall of the Tour de Romandie.

Going into the stage, Froome had just one second to make up on leader Simon Spilak (Katusha) to take the overall. Despite the Slovenian’s impressive record against the clock, he was no match for Froome, who took a whole half minute from him en route to winning the stage.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.