1983 Including Tour De France Debut
In 1983 Millar came second in the Dauphiné with LeMond again finishing a place above him. With his impressive June showing in the Dauphine, Millar was selected for the Tour de France for the first time.
Any hopes of a high placing in the tour General Classification ended on stage three when he crashed losing 17 minutes. July 11th was that year's tour first mountainous race crossing the Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin, and Peyresourde in the Pyreness on stage 10 Pau-Bagneres de Luchon. The only Pyrenean stage of that tour, Millar won the day six seconds ahead of Pedro Delgado. Millar finished 14th overall, 23 minutes behind the winner, Laurent Fignon and sandwiched in between two riders who would figure prominently in his career, Stephen Roche in 13th and Delgado in 15th. Millar's debut grand tour gave him third in the mountains classification, one place above Delgado like in the General Classification with Lucien van Impe taking the polka dot jersey.
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