Welcome to live coverage of the final stage of this year's Tour de France, a 120km ride from Rambouillet to Paris. It will begin as a largely processional affair as Bradley Wiggins becomes the first ever Briton to win the Tour. But there will be a feisty finale with the expected mass bunch sprint everyone wants to win on the Champs Elysees.

The peloton is onto the first of two minor climbs, the Cat.4 Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse. On this note, it's probably worth mentioning the fact Chris Anker Sorensen of Saxo Bank-Tinkoff has been named the most aggressive rider of the 99th Tour de France. He was on the attack during both stages in the Pyrenees and, on the day to Peyragudes, he sliced his fingers in an accident - but still battled on to finish 24th in the stage. Sorensen is 14th on GC and third in the KOM standings.

Thomas Voeckler is having some fun off the back of the peloton, the Frenchman milking the applause from the home fans as he shows off his polka dot jersey and all the trimmings.

The pace is beginning to rise a little as Movistar move to the front of the peloton. It's a lovely day in France, with the sun shining in a blue sky and temperatures in the mid 20s.

The peloton rolls on through the woodlands between Rambouillet and Versailles. Everyone is in good spirits, with world champion Mark Cavendish particularly animated as he smiles to the camera. Wiggins is currently enjoying a good chat with Greg Henderson of Lotto. The New Zealander is completing his first Tour at the age of 35. In a couple of hours, the smiles will be gone as Lotto and Sky take each other on for the stage victory...

This year 198 riders started in this Tour de France. If all 153 riders that have started today finish in Paris, it will be the smallest finishing peloton since 2008. Last year 166 completed the Tour.

The remaining Sky riders have come together on the front of the peloton for some photos. Eight of their nine-man squad will ride into Paris. Kanstantsin Siutsou crashed out in stage three of the race. Only four teams have a full quota of riders: Liquigas, Lotto, BMC and Saxo Bank.

Nice scenes as Bradley Wiggins rides along with defending champion Cadel Evans of BMC. The pair are in good spirits, chatting, laughing and then shaking hands. Evans struggled to replicate his form of last year, the 35-year-old finishing the race eighth, almost 16 minutes in arrears.

Despite their woes both on and off the bike, RadioShack-Nissan won the team standings, 6:02 ahead of second-place Team Sky. RadioShack were the only other team to wear the yellow jersey, with Swiss Fabian Cancellara taking the maillot jaune after winning the opening time trial in Liege and wearing it for seven stages until Wiggins took over at the top.

American 23-year-old Tejay van Garderen finishes the race in fifth place - the higest of any rider aged 25 or younger. BMC's van Garderen finished the race 6:13 quicker than his nearest rival in the white jersey competition - France's Thibaut Pinot (FDJ-BigMat), the youngest rider in the race.

France's Thomas Voeckler won two mountain stages and was a constant attacking force in both the Alps and the Pyrenees en route to securing the king of the mountains competition. The Europcar rider pipped Sweden's Frederik Kessiakoff (Astana) by 11 points in the race for the polka dot jersey.

Regardless of what happens today on the Champs Elysees, Slovakia's Peter Sagan (Liquigas) will win the green jersey. The 22-year-old Tour debutant has a massive 122-point lead on Germany's Andrey Greipel (Lotto) in the points classification, with Matt Goss (Orica-GreenEdge) third. All three will no doubt fancy the win today... as well as the world champion Mark Cavendish.

Bradley Wiggins tops the standings after three weeks of racing. The 32-year-old from Kilburn is the first ever British winner of the Tour. What's more, his Sky team-mate Chris Froome finishes the race as runner-up. Froome is 3:21 down on Wiggins in the GC, with Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) completing the podium at 6:19. Belgian Jurgen van den Broeck (Lotto Belisol) is fourth at 10:15 and young American Tejay van Garderen (BMC) is fifth at 11:04.

The remaining 153 riders are riding through the neutral zone at the start of this final stage - with all jersey winners on the front of the pack posing for photos. The stage is about to get under way - but don't expect much full-blooded action until the race hits the streets of Paris. Right, they're off!

If you were asleep all day yesterday, Bradley Wiggins completed the flat 53.5km individual time trial to Chartres in a blistering time of one hour, four minutes and 13 seconds to beat Sky team-mate Chris Froome by 1:16. Italy’s Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) put in a solid performance to preserve his third place on the podium.