Tour of Britain Lars Boom. The 2012 Tour of Britain was held from 9 to 16 September. Jonathan Tiernan-Locke originally won the event, the first British rider to do so since its relaunch. In 2014, following investigation for biological passport irregularities, Tiernan-Locke was banned for two years and stripped of his 2012 title. The race was retrospectively awarded to Australia's Nathan Haas, riding for the Garmin-Sharp team. Mark Cavendish, in his last race as World Champion, won three stages including the final stage in an uphill sprint up Guildford's cobbled high street. Tour de France 2012 winner, Bradley Wiggins was forced to pull
Tour of Britain a police motorcyclist being killed in a collision with a motorist near Worcester. After a five-year hiatus, the Tour of Britain returned in 2004. It began as a five-stage race before increasing to an eight-stage race in 2008. Like the preceding PruTour, it is a professional men's race, attracting UCI World Tour teams, although it has also attracted semi-professional teams and the amateur Great Britain national team. From 2014, the race has been rated 2.HC by the UCI and forms part of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2004 Tour of Britain was the first edition of the latest version of