TdF isn't a race between nations, it's a race between teams of professional riders. These teams will usually have members of several different nationalities.
While a team may be based in France, and even have majority of French riders, it's still not a team officially representing France.
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6 different Spaniards have won the tour: Indurain, Contador, Sastre, Delgado, Ocana, Bahamontes. Together, they good for eleven yellow jerseys: 6 for Indurain, 2 for Contador and 1 for the others
France has won the tour 36 times. Anquetil and Hinault each have won five times, Leduqc and Bobet three times and some others have won 2 or 1 time.
As of the 2008 Tour de France, no British cyclist has ever won the Tour. One British cyclist, Robert Millar, was King of the Mountains in 1984.
Vincenzo Nibali, from Messina, Sicily, Italy, won the 2014 Tour de France. The race featured 21 stages and covered a distance of 2,276 miles.
Olympic Gold Medal winner Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France 2012.
Bernard Hinault was the last French cyclist to win the Tour de France. He won a total of 5 Tour de Frances, the last one being in 1985.
Hinault won the Tour de France 5 times between 1978 and 1985Miguel Indurain won five times in a row; he won 1991 to 1995.Lance Armstrong won seven times, in a row too. But was stripped of his titles due to doping