How the British (and French) press broke the news of Wiggins's victory

A look at the front pages of a number of Britain's daily newspapers and how they were reacting to the news that one of their own, Bradley Wiggins, had just won the biggest bike race in the World for the first time. With the Olympic Games just days away, it's one hell of a time to be a headline writer for the sports sections of a daily British paper and an even better time to be a cycling fan...

How the French see it...

BRITISH TIME

Wigins sets the record straight. At 50 km/h average speed, he dominated the ride against the clock of the Tour 2012, beating teammate Froome by more than a minute. Today, the Londoner triumph's in yellow on the Champs-Elysees.

How the Canadian media received Hesjedal's victory

It's not often Cycling makes the front pages of the daily newspapers in Canada but that was the case on Monday following Ryder Hesjedal's Giro d'Italia victory. I went out and bought three of them to enjoy the moment, but below is a handful of national and local papers from across the country including how a couple of Canadian sports websites published the news.