David Millar

David Millar

David Millar in 2011
Personal information
Full name	David Millar
Nickname	Millar-Time
Born	January 4, 1977 (1977-01-04) (age 34) Mtarfa, Malta
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	76 kg (170 lb; 12.0 st)
Team information
Current team	Garmin-Cervélo
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time-trialist
Amateur team(s)
High Wycombe CC VC St-Quentin
Professional team(s)
1997–2004 2006–2007 2008–	Cofidis Saunier Duval-Prodir Slipstream-Chipotle
Major wins
Tour de France, 4 Stages (1 TTT) Vuelta a España, 5 Stages Giro d'Italia, 2 stages (1 TTT) Three Days of De Panne (2010) Danmark Rundt (2001) Tour de Picardie (2003) National Individual Pursuit Champion (2006) National Road Race Champion (2007) National Time Trial Champion (2007)
Medal record Competitor for  Great Britain Road bicycle racing World Championships Silver 2001 Lisbon Time trial Silver 2010 Melbourne Time trial Disqualified 2003 Hamilton Time trial Competitor for  Scotland Road bicycle racing Commonwealth Games Gold 2010 Delhi Time Trial Bronze 2010 Delhi Road Race
Infobox last updated on 19 September 2009

David Millar (born 4 January 1977,^[1][2] Mtarfa, Malta^[3]) is a British road racing cyclist riding for Garmin-Cervélo. He has won three stages of the Tour de France, two of the Vuelta a España and one Stage of the Giro d'Italia. He was the British national road champion^[4] and the national time trial champion,^[5] both in 2007. He is the only British rider to have worn all Tour de France jerseys and one of four to have worn the yellow jersey.^[6] He is also the only British rider to have worn the leader's jersey in all three Grand Tours.^[7] He was banned for two years in 2004 after admitting taking banned performance-enhancing drugs,^[8][9] but four years after his return he won the silver medal at the World Time Trial Championships. He is not related to fellow Scottish cyclist Robert Millar.

Background

David Millar is one of two children of Gordon and Avril Millar. His father was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and Millar was born while his father was based in Malta for a 3 year tour of duty. The family returned to the UK, and lived at RAF Kinloss in Scotland before moving to Aylesbury, 60 km north-west of London. His father and mother divorced when Millar was 11 and his father moved to Hong Kong when he joined Cathay Pacific, an airline, based there. Millar considers Hong Kong as his home.^[10] Millar moved to Hong Kong to join his father when he was 13. He rode in mountain bike races in Hong Kong "and did pretty well."^[11] He bought a road bike in 1992 and raced at 6.30 in the morning before the island's roads began filling with traffic.

He chose mathematics, economics and geography as his A-level, pre-university, examination subjects, then switched to art, graphics and sports studies at his father's suggestion. He completed his A-levels and, having moved back to England to be with his mother in Maidenhead, enrolled at an arts college. He started cycling with a club in High Wycombe, west of London. His mother, Avril, took him there so that he would make new friends^[12] and have something to do.^[11] Millar showed talent and at 18, a week before he was due to start at the arts college, he went to race in France. He joined a club at St-Quentin, in the Picardy region, and won eight races.^[13] Five professional teams^{[n 1]} offered him a contract. He signed with Cyrille Guimard because his team, Cofidis, was based in the area^[13] and he knew of Guimard's skill in recognising young talent.^[11]

Early career

In his first professional season, Millar won the prologue of the Tour de l'Avenir and the competition for the best young rider in the Mi-Août Breton. He profited from his background in 10-mile time-trials in Britain to win the first stage of the 2000 Tour de France,^[14] a 16 km time-trial at Futuroscope. He held the yellow jersey for a few days. He failed to repeat his feat at Dunkirk in 2001 after puncturing in a bend and crashing. He finished fifth in the prologue in 2002 on a rolling course at Luxembourg. His attempt to win the prologue in central Paris in the centenary Tour of 2003 ended when his chain dropped off 500 m before the finish. He lost by 0.14 s to Brad McGee. Millar had ridden a bike without a front derailleur.^{[n 2]} He blamed his directeur sportif, Alain Bondue. "It wasn't a problem with my chainring; it was a problem with my team," he told journalists at the finish. He said Bondue had tried to save a few grams by removing the derailleur. Bondue said he had told Millar to use a front derailleur after other riders had similar problems.^[15][16] Bondue was demoted to logistics manager.^[16]

Hopes of winning the Tour de France were fuelled by his stage win in the 2001 Vuelta a España, when he was in a breakaway with Santiago Botero on a mountain stage. However, Millar said that if he were to go for a Tour win, it would be only if he were certain of winning, not simply to do well.

Millar won a gold medal for Malta in the 2001 Games of the Small States of Europe [4], held in San Marino. Millar was selected for the Scotland team for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, but withdrew to compete for Cofidis instead.^[17]

Doping

David Millar, Tour of Romandy 2007

Millar was eating in a restaurant in Bidart, near Biarritz, on 23 June 2004 when he was approached by three plainclothes policemen of the Paris drug squad^[18] at 8.25pm.^[12] They took Millar's watch, shoelaces, jewellery, keys and phone.^[19] Millar said:

“	"I was shocked, but I didn't think they had anything on me. I thought it was a waste of time – just a publicity stunt. They took me back to the apartment. They went in with a gun first, as if somebody was going to hit them with a back wheel or something. They sat me down and I wasn't allowed to move while they searched the house. They search while you're there. It took them four hours. I said to them: 'Why are you here?' They said: 'You know why – François Migraine.[n 3] Because of the interview with Migraine in L'Équipe.' They humiliated me and were critiquing my lifestyle, using a classic good cop, bad cop thing. It was psychological warfare. The bad cop literally hated me. He was saying: 'You're not a good person – we know that.' He said: 'You take three paces and I will bring you down like you're resisting arrest.' It was deliberate. I felt completely violated."	”
	— David Millar, 2004 [19]

After two and a half hours they found empty phials of Eprex, a brand of the blood-boosting drug EPO, and two used syringes.^{[12][n 4]} Millar said he had been given them as a gift at the Tour of Spain, that he had taken them to Manchester and used them. After that he had kept them as a souvenir.^[19] The detectives took Millar to the prison in Biaritz and put him alone in a cell.^[19]

The raid followed the arrest at the start of 2004 of Cofidis' soigneur, Bogdan Madejak.^[20] Police, looking to find out more about the drugs found on Madejak, turned their attention to another rider on the team, Philippe Gaumont, as he arrived at Orly airport in Paris on 20 January 2004.^{[13][20][n 5]} On 22 January 2004 the magazine, Le Point, published transcripts of police phone taps.^[20]

David Walsh, writing in the Sunday Times in Britain, said:

"Gaumont accused Millar of encouraging the team's doctor, Jean-Jacques Menuet, to give both him and another rider, Cedric Vasseur, a doping product.^{[n 6]} Gaumont said: 'Vasseur and I went to Menuet's room and were injected with a clear liquid. If Menuet agreed to do so, it was because Millar asked him to. He is the leader of the team, and leaders have such power.' Gaumont's statement implicated Millar in the police investigation into Cofidis. It was certain that the police would interview him."^[12]

Gaumont said it had happened the day before the Tour finished on the Champs-Élysées in 2003, when Millar won the time-trial. Gaumont said he didn't know what was in the syringe but that "ça m'avait bloqué (that blocked me; i.e. kept me from going well)." Millar denied the claim to the investigating judge and said Menuet was the best person he had ever met and that he was "like a father to me at races."^[13] He also denied Gaumont's claims that Millar had taken drugs trips by mixing Stilnox, a sleeping powder, with ephedrine, a stimulant.^[13] He called Gaumont a lunatic and said he was talking "absolute crap."^[21] But his phone calls had been tapped for four months^[13] and Millar eventually confessed to police on June 24, 2004.^[22] He admitted using EPO in 2001 and 2003. He blamed it on stress, in particular losing the prologue, the opening time-trial, in the 2003 Tour, and being beaten by Jan Ullrich in the 2001 world time trial championship. Under cycling rules a confession equates to a positive test.^[22][23] British Cycling suspended him for two years in August 2004. He was disqualified as 2003 world time trial champion, fined CHF2,000 '(approx. €1250)', and disqualified from the 2003 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and 2001 Vuelta a España.^[24] Cofidis fired him and dropped out of racing while it investigated other team members. Several Cofidis riders and assistants were fired. Alain Bondue, the team's director, and Menuet, the doctor, left the team.^[21] Vasseur was forbidden to start the 2004 Tour de France but later cleared.

Millar failed in an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce his ban, but the court backdated the suspension to the day he confessed, June 24, 2004.^[25][26]

Millar was investigated in Nanterre in 2006 with nine other defendants, mostly from Cofidis. The court decided it was not clear he had taken drugs in France and that charges could not be pursued.^[27] The doctor he had consulted (see below) lived south of Biarritz but across the Pyrenees, in Spain. Millar's statement to the judge, Richard Pallain, told of a man torn apart by the pressure of racing, the expectations placed in him by British fans, and an inability to make close friends. He said he despaired of cycling in 1999 and began going to parties. At one, he fell down stairs and broke a bone. It put him out of cycling for four months and he didn't get back to racing form until the following year. Winning the prologue of the Tour de France made things worse; he had worn the maillot jaune of leadership – his "dream", he said – and when it was all over he was back in his apartment with no friends and just a television for company.^[13]

In 2001 he was in love with an Australian photography student.^[28] Shari traveled from Brisbane to France to see him race but he crashed on the first day of the Tour de France. The rest of the race barely improved. Millar said in his statement to police:

“	"It was during this Tour and while I was going badly that I found myself one evening in the same bedroom as Massimilano Lelli and he said we were going to prepare ourselves for the Tour of Spain. He could see things were going badly between me and the team and that I wasn't even right within myself. I knew what he meant. He told me we'd go to Italy, and I knew what that implied. I took the EPO because I knew that the Cofidis team was going to the Tour of Spain on condition that I was at the start and that I rode well. Nobody put any pressure on me but I felt it nevertheless (...) I took drugs because my job was to finish in a good place in the results. There were magazines in England, sports journalists, television stations, and I didn't want to be criticised."	”
	— David Millar, July 2004.[13]

Millar said he went to Australia with his fiancée at the end of 2001 and returned not wanting to ride a bike. Their relationship ended. He consulted Jesus Losa, the doctor of the Euskaltel team in Spain,^{[n 7]} and had more sessions of EPO in May and August 2003.^[13]

“	"I put my life and my career in his hands and I gave him €12,000 a year. At the time, I was earning €250,000 in salary. That year, I won €800,000. The targets we had at the end of the EPO treatment were the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and the world time-trial championship in Canada. I had taken EPO when I was in Manchester. The two syringes found at my house were the ones with which I injected myself while I was there. I kept them to remind me that I had become world champion at Hamilton while I was doped. I had dreamed of being a world champion but I had done it through trickery.	”
	— David Millar, July 2004.[13]

Doping had gained him 25 seconds in the championship, he said.^[29] He toasted his championship in the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas^[30] But the suspension cost Millar his job, his income and his house. He said:

“	"You're 27 years old and you think you've got everything and then suddenly you have nothing – in fact less than nothing. I came back to England and started from scratch."	”
	— David Millar, January 2006.[30]

He was drunk for much of a year.^[8][30] He said he scraped by with the help of family and friends.

Post-suspension

Millar at the 2007 Tour de France

Millar moved to Hayfield, on the edge of the Peak District of northern England^[29][30] to be close to the velodrome at Manchester where British cycling has its headquarters. He was quoted as saying:

“	"After a year without cycling, I came back thanks to my friends in the English [sic] track team who were training at Manchester. I trained with them and little by little I started feeling like a racing cyclist again."	”
	— David Millar, 2007 [9]

He joined a Spanish team, Saunier Duval-Prodir. Its manager, Mauro Gianetti, had contacted him nine months into his suspension.^[30] He said:

"After what David has been through over the past 18 months and what he has learned, I can't believe that he would take a risk again. He has been through hard times and I think that he's emerged as a wiser person."^[30]

William Fotheringham wrote:

"His comeback will raise hackles. There will be outraged letters from cycling's moral majority, who feel that all drug-takers should face life bans. Yet Millar has built a support network, ranging from his former trainer Mike Taylor to British Cycling's performance director Dave Brailsford, who has always felt his case to be a complex one deserving of understanding rather than condemnation.^{[n 8]} Millar acknowledges that in one sense he is on a hiding to nothing. If he succeeds, there will be knowing nudges and winks. If he fails, ditto."^[29]

Millar's suspension ended a week before the 2006 Tour de France and he rode with Saunier Duval-Prodir. He finished 17th in the prologue and 11th on the penultimate, time-trial stage. He finished 59th of 139 finishers, more than 2 hours behind the winner, Óscar Pereiro.^{[n 9]} In the 2006 Vuelta a España, Millar won in stage 14, a time trial around the city of Cuenca. On 3 October, he won the British 4,000m individual pursuit championship in 4m 22.32s at Manchester.

He left Saunier Duval-Prodir^{[n 10]} to join an American team, Slipstream-Chipotle^[31][32] run by Jonathan Vaughters, a former rider. Vaughters stressed the team's stance against doping.^[33][34] In the 2007 season, Millar won both the British road and time trial championships and came second in the Eneco Tour, 11 seconds behind Jose Ivan Gutierrez. His other victory of the year came in the Paris-Nice, during which he won the prologue.

Millar at the 2008 Giro d'Italia

For the start of the 2008 season, Slipstream became known as Garmin Slipstream, and Millar took on part ownership of the side, in order to foster their anti-doping stance.^[35] He also helped orchestrate Slipstream-Chipotle's victory in the Giro d'Italia opening team time trial. 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. He flung his bike away. In the 2008 Tour de France, Millar came third in the time trial on stage four, 18 seconds behind the winner. Overall he finished 68th, 1h 59m 39s behind Carlos Sastre. His best results of the season came in the 2008 Tour of California in which he finished second overall.

Millar's 2009 season continued to bring solid performances in time-trials, though was hampered by injury in March 2009. He returned at the Giro d'Italia and put in an impressive performance at the subsequent 2009 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, finishing ninth overall. He competed in both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, completing a hat-trick of Grand Tour entries for the year. His best performance in a stage was first, achieved in the stage twenty time trial at the Vuelta. The race was Millar's first win for two years, and his fifth at the Vuelta.

Elite Men's Time trial medallists: David Millar, Fabian Cancellara and Tony Martin

2010 saw Millar continue his strong time-trial form, with stage wins at the Critérium International and the Three Days of De Panne. De Panne also saw Millar gain his first multi-stage race victory since the 2001 Circuit de la Sarthe. In addition to those victories, Millar had a number of high placings in major time trials earlier in the season – he finished third in the prologue of the 2010 Tour de France and second in stage three of the Critérium du Dauphiné. Unfortunately, an injury in the Tour de France hampered the rest of his season, though he nonetheless repeated his achievement of finishing all three grand tours. Millar then matched his best clean placing at the Men's World Time-Trial Championships, finishing second behind Fabian Cancellara. Shortly after, at the Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in the time trial and a bronze in the road race.

2011 saw Millar suffer from illness early in the season,^[36] missing many of the classics. His best performance was a 3rd place finish in the overall of the Circuit de la Sarthe. He recovered in time for the Giro d'Italia, finishing second on stage 2 to take the maglia rosa. Millar's lead, however, was overshadowed by the death of Wouter Weylandt in the Giro on the same day; in the role of race leader, Millar helped organise the tributes to Weylandt's during the subsequent day's neutralised stage.^[37] He later won the time-trial stage 21 of the Giro, meaning that he became only the third British rider - after Robert Millar and Mark Cavendish - to achieve victories in all three Grand Tours during his career. In June he published his autobiography titled Racing Through the Dark, which Richard Williams in The Guardian wrote was "one of the great first-person accounts of sporting experience".^[38] Millar was team captain of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the 2011 UCI World Championships road race.^[39][40]

Personality

"David is anything but a complicated guy. In his spirit, he is very British, very cool. That sort of mentality is very rare in cycling. In fact, he's a very emotional boy, very angry (bileux), who gives himself a lot of worries for no reason. David always needs someone to reassure him. You always have to be behind him to comfort him."

Alain Deloeuil, Millars directeur sportif at Cofidis in 2001 ^[41]

Millar is known for blunt comments, and he quit the Vuelta in 2002 to protest against the route and the course, which he considered dangerous. He had crashed several times and ripped off his race number and quit metres from the finish of the stage. William Fotheringham said Millar was always good for a piquant "if often foul-mouthed" quote full of "F and C words".^[29] He described his dress sense as "artistic grunge-chic".

Millar observed, when speaking about other riders:

“	"They give off the image of exceptional men but in fact they are very, very ordinary. Simple people without much education, who aren't fun to eat with (pas très rigolos à table), who don't get into intellectual discussions. All they have in life is cycling. Without that, it's finished."	”
	— David Millar, 2007 [8]

The English author, Freya North, met Millar for her book Cat. She said he didn't look like a cyclist, "more like a cross between a snowboarder and a member of a student indie rock group."^[42]

Personal life

On 9 September 2011, David Millar's wife, Nicole, gave birth to their son, Archibald Millar.^[43][44]

Palmares

1997

1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir

1998

1st Prologue Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stage 3B Three Days of De Panne

1999

1st Manx International, Isle of Man

1st Mountains Classification, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

2000

1st Stage 1 Tour de France

1st Stage 1B Route du Sud

1st Youth classification, Circuit de la Sarthe

2001

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a España

1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España

1st Overall Danmark Rundt

1st Stage 5

1st Youth Classification

1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

1st Stage 4

1st Stage 5

1st Youth Classification

1st Stage 4B Bicicleta Vaca

2nd UCI Road World Championship Time Trial

2002

1st Stage 13 Tour de France

2003

1st Stage 19 Tour de France^{[n 11]}[5]

1st Tour de Picardie

1st Stage 1 Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen

1st Stage 4 Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos

1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España

2006

1st Individual Pursuit Champion British National Track Championships

1st Stage 14 Vuelta a España

2007

1st National Road Race Champion

1st National Time Trial Champion

1st Prologue Paris–Nice

2008

1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia

2nd Overall Tour of California

2009

1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España

1st Edinburgh Nocturne

Combativity award Stage 6, Tour de France

2010

1st Time Trial Commonwealth Games Time Trial

1st Overall Three Days of De Panne

1st Stage 3b ITT

1st Stage 3 Critérium International

1st Chrono des Nations

2nd UCI Road World Championship Time Trial

3rd Commonwealth Games Road Race

2011

1st stage 21 Giro d'Italia

Wore Pink Jersey on Stages 6–7

1st Stage 2 TTT Tour de France

2nd Overall Tour of Beijing

2nd Stage 1 Tour of Beijing

3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

3rd Overall Eneco Tour

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling
• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

Notes

1. ^ Banesto, GAN, Casino, Festina-Lotus, Française des Jeux and Cofidis offered Millar his first professional contract
2. ^ Riders rarely need more than one chain-ring in a time trial but the cage of a front gear, which wraps round the chain, makes the chain less likely to lift off in high and low gears.
3. ^ François Migraine was the chief executive of Cofidis, the money-lending company which sponsored Millar's team.
4. ^ Some reports of the police search on 23 June 2004 say the syringes were on a book, others that they were in a hollowed-out book.
5. ^ Stories had begun to spread of the Cofidis team after the discovery of a paper written for a learned journal by a psychiatrist who had spent time with the team. The paper didn't name Cofidis but it was possible, with other information, to drew a conclusion. The police started taking an interest. Gaumont had a history in cycling and the police concluded he would be a good man to question. He was stopped at Orly airport after 10 days' training in Spain. Gaumont saw no reason to be the scapegoat for things that went wider – the police suspected other riders and officials and sensed a network of drug-sellers and carriers – and he named names and gave a long account of what he said went on within the team. "I have been treated as an informer and a madman," he said. "That leaves me neither angry nor sad. I knew that one day I'd have to get it all off my chest. You don't drug yourself for 10 years with a smile on your lips."
6. ^ Gaumont said: "Menuet's style was never to prescribe an illicit product, never to bring anything illicit, but if you brought these products to him, not only would he advise you about them but he was likely to administer them." Menuet said he refused to break medical confidentiality and did not comment. – Cyclisme – Le médecin de Cofidis mis en cause, http://www.lequipe.fr/Cyclisme/20040409_094343Dev.html
7. ^ Jesus Losa, the doctor of the Euskaltel team in Spain, was also named in court in July 2008 by the Spanish rider, Moises Duenas after his eviction from the Tour de France – Moises Duenas Blames Spanish Doctor For Positive Dope Test http://www.bicycle.net/2008/moises-duenas-blames-spanish-doctor-for-positive-dope-test. Losa denied his involvement, said Duenas had paid him only for nutrition advice, and said he had been named in the Millar case but not questioned.
8. ^ Millar had been talking to Brailsford when police interrupted their meal at Bidart.
9. ^ Floyd Landis was later disqualified from the 2006 Tour de France for taking drugs and the win was given to Óscar Pereiro, who finished 57 seconds behind him.
10. ^ Saunier Duval-Prodir's leading rider, Riccardo Riccò, was disqualified for doping during the Tour de France of 2008. Millar told Le Journal du Dimanche on 20 July 2008: "I didn't see anything [doping] organised even if, at the time, there were suspicions about riders who were having exceptional performances. But there is no anti-doping culture in the team. I like the manager, Mauro Gianetti, a lot, but he is naive. He trusts people who don't deserve it. A positive dope test doesn't stop with the rider. It has ramifications. If Saunier Duval doesn't know that a rider is working with another doctor, outside the team, it's because it hasn't done what needs to be done."
11. ^ Millar's victory on Stage 19 of the 2003 Tour de France was removed from his record at his own request due to doping

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41. ^ Vélo, France, May 2001
42. ^ Procycling, UK, undated cutting
43. ^ Brown, Gregor (20 September 2011). "Wiggins and Millar tipped for success in time trial". Cycling Weekly. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/530183/wiggins-and-millar-tipped-for-success-in-time-trial.html. Retrieved 26 September 2011. 
44. ^ Swarbrick, Susan (13 September 2011). "Cyclist David Millar tells of his battle with drugs". Herald & Times Group. http://www.heraldscotland.com/life-style/cyclist-david-millar-tells-of-his-battle-with-drugs-1.1123335. Retrieved 26 September 2011. 

External links

• Garmin-Cervélo Pro Cycling Team Profile
• VELOBIOS David Miller Profile
• David Millar at Trap-Friis.dk

Sporting positions
Preceded by Hamish Haynes	British National Road Race Championships 2007	Succeeded by Rob Hayles

Persondata
Name	Millar, David
Alternative names
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1977-01-04
Place of birth	Mtarfa, Malta
Date of death
Place of death