David Millar was born on 4 January 1977 and is a Scottish retired professional road racing cyclist.
49 Facts About David Millar
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David Millar has won four stages of the Tour de France, five of the Vuelta a Espana and one stage of the Giro d'Italia.
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David Millar was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both in 2007.
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David Millar is the son of Gordon and Avril David Millar, both Scots.
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David Millar's father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and Millar was born in Mtarfa, Malta, while his father was based there for a three-year tour of duty.
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David Millar has a sister, Frances who works in cycling, currently as the chief executive officer of Team Ineos.
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David Millar moved to Hong Kong to join his father when he was 13.
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David Millar completed his A-levels and, having moved back to England to be with his mother in Maidenhead, enrolled at an arts college.
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David Millar started cycling with a club in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
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David Millar joined a club at St-Quentin, in the Picardy region, and won eight races.
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David Millar signed with Cyrille Guimard because his team, Cofidis, was based in the area and he knew of Guimard's skill in recognising young talent.
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David Millar held the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification for a few days.
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David Millar failed to repeat his feat at Dunkirk in 2001 after puncturing in a bend and crashing.
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David Millar finished fifth in the prologue in 2002 on a rolling course at Luxembourg.
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David Millar had ridden a bike without a front derailleur to save weight.
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David Millar said Bondue had tried to save a few grams by removing the derailleur.
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David Millar won a gold medal for Malta in the 2001 Games of the Small States of Europe, held in San Marino.
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David Millar was selected for the Scotland team for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, but withdrew to compete for Cofidis instead.
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David Millar crashed three times, and protested by handing in his race number a metre from the line, effectively abandoning from the race.
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David Millar was dining in a restaurant with Dave Brailsford in Bidart, near Biarritz, on 23 June 2004 when he was approached by three plainclothes policemen of the Paris drug squad at 8.25pm.
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David Millar claimed he had been given them as a gift at the Tour of Spain, and that he had taken them to Manchester and used them there.
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David Millar blamed it on stress, in particular losing the prologue in the 2003 Tour and being beaten by Jan Ullrich in the 2001 world time trial championship.
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Cofidis fired David Millar and withdrew from racing while it carried out an internal investigation.
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David Millar failed in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce his ban, but the court did backdate his suspension to the day he confessed, 24 June 2004.
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David Millar was prosecuted in a French court in Nanterre in 2006 with nine other defendants, mostly from Cofidis.
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David Millar has claimed that doping gained him 25 seconds in the 2003 world time-trial championship.
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David Millar toasted his championship in the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas.
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David Millar then began abusing alcohol for much of a year.
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David Millar moved to Hayfield, on the edge of the Peak District of northern England, to be close to the Manchester Velodrome where British cycling has its headquarters.
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David Millar finished 17th in the prologue and 11th on the penultimate, time-trial stage.
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David Millar finished 59th of 139 finishers, more than 2 hours behind the winner, Oscar Pereiro.
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David 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 and he flung his bike to the roadside.
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David Millar rode the 2009 Giro d'Italia and then the 2009 Criterium du Dauphine Libere, finishing ninth overall.
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David Millar competed in both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana.
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David Millar then matched his best clean placing at the Men's World Time-Trial Championships, finishing second behind Fabian Cancellara.
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David Millar's best performance was a 3rd-place finish in the overall of the Circuit de la Sarthe.
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David Millar recovered in time for the Giro d'Italia, finishing second on stage 3 to take the pink jersey as leader of the general classification.
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David Millar's lead was overshadowed by the death of Wouter Weylandt in the Giro on the same day; in the role of race leader, David Millar helped organise the tributes to Weylandt's during the subsequent day's neutralised stage.
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David Millar was team captain of the Great Britain team that helped Cavendish win the 2011 UCI World Championships road race.
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David Millar returned to competition at the Tour of Bavaria and the Criterium du Dauphine, where his best result was a 9th place on stage 4.
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David Millar was the fourth British rider to win a stage in a tour, as Bradley Wiggins became the second British rider to win the event.
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David Millar was selected to race on the British Road Race Team for the London Olympics.
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David Millar reprised his role of team captain from the 2011 World Championships, again aiming to steer Mark Cavendish to victory.
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David Millar was not selected to make the 2014 Tour de France team, a decision that left him 'devastated and shocked'.
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David Millar retired from professional cycling after the 2014 season with his last competitive start being at the Bec CC Hill Climb in October.
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The final year of David Millar's career was captured by documentary maker Finlay Pretsell for the film Time Trial.
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In March 2015 David Millar revealed he was coaching former teammate Ryder Hesjedal, and he has taken a mentoring role with the Great Britain under-23 cycling squad.
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David Millar launched his 'Chpt3' brand in 2015, collaborating with various partners to produce a range of cycling-related products, including bikes and clothing.
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In 2013, while giving consultation to the production of the film The Program, David Millar hit his head on a low-hanging beam while walking through a hotel.