Chris Froome just won a wild Tour de France - here are the 6 most unforgettable moments

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Chris Froome, a Kenyan-born Briton, overcame a couple of wild crashes to win his third Tour de France in Paris on Sunday. Serious challenges from his chief rivals never materialized.

Chris Froome has won the Tour de France for the third time. The 31-year-old took the race leader's yellow jersey on stage eight and never let it go. He won two stages along the way.

France's Romain Bardet, 25, finished second and Colombia's Nairo Quintana, 26, took third. The highest-placed American was Tejay van Garderen in 29th. The Tour started on July 2 at Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy with 197 riders and finished with 174 in Paris on July 24.

Froome, a Kenyan-born Briton, won the Tour in 2013 and 2015. He was favored to win in 2014 but crashed out of the race during the first week.

The biggest surprise of this year's Tour was the failure of Quintana to challenge Froome in the high mountains. The compact climber from Cómbita - runner-up to Froome last year - never posed a threat, and the highly anticipated duel between Quintana and Froome didn't happen.

Froome's Sky team was by far the strongest in the race. Several of Froome's teammates - notably Dutchman Walt Poels and Colombian Sergio Henao - were as good or nearly as good Froome's rivals, and their fierce pacesetting made it virtually impossible for others to challenge Froome. The victory was a tribute to Sky's class and depth - it has now won four Tours in the past five years (Bradley Wiggins won the 2012 Tour with Sky) - as well as an example of how the teams with the biggest budgets tend to dominate the Tour. Sky has a budget of about $40 million, which is massive for pro cycling and much larger than that of most teams.

Here are six unforgettable moments from the 103rd Tour de France: