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Philippa York (born Robert Millar on 13 September 1958) is a Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist. York, who competed when known as Robert Millar, is one of Britain's most successful cyclists. York won the "
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" competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall. This success was the first time a British rider won a major Tour classification, and was unsurpassed as the highest Tour finish for a
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for over 20 years until
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was retrospectively placed third in the
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. York started the Tour de France eleven times, finishing eight times. York finished second in the
1987 Giro d'Italia The 1987 Giro d'Italia was the 70th edition of the bicycle race. It began on 21 May with a prologue in San Remo, and concluded on 13 June with a individual time trial in Saint-Vincent. A total of 180 riders from 20 teams entered the 22- ...
and also won the King of the Mountains classification. This was the highest finish by a Briton in the Giro d'Italia until
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won the 2018 race. As well as the Giro second-place finish, York finished second in two other Grand Tours: the 1985 and 1986
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. The second place at the 1985 Vuelta came after losing the leader's jersey on the penultimate stage, in what is widely thought to have been collusion by the Spanish-speaking teams. Further victories came at the 1985
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, the 1989
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and the 1990 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. After retiring in 1995, York moved into journalism, as well as spending a year as a coach for British Cycling. She reduced her public commitments in 2000 following hostile stories regarding rumours of her
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, and after an appearance as Millar at the 2002 Commonwealth Games left public life altogether. In the 2010s, having transitioned to living as York, she returned to journalism, publishing under the name of Robert Millar, until a decision to reveal her transition publicly by appearing on television in 2017 in a commentary role.


Early life and amateur career

York was born and raised in
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, Scotland, as Robert Millar. At one time destined for a career as a factory engineer, York attended
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in the south of the city. In 2017, York revealed that she had first felt "different" aged five, but was unaware that this difference came from discomfort with having a male body. She initially began riding for Glenmarnock Wheelers
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and quickly established herself as a leading amateur road racing rider. She was a relatively small man meaning she had comparatively less weight to carry uphill and she excelled as a specialist hill and mountain cyclist. She won the Scottish junior title in 1976 and was Scottish
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champion the following year. In 1978, York established herself on the British scene. She was twenty-first in the
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, and won the British amateur road race championship. She moved to France in 1979 to join the
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(A.C.B.B.), one of Europe's top amateur teams, and quickly began winning races such the
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. In 1979, after retaining her British road title, taking fourth place in the world amateur road championship, claiming five wins in France and winning the French 'Best Amateur' Trophy, she turned professional for the Peugeot cycling team, and as a
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focused on single-day road races and stage races in hilly or mountainous
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. York was happy to travel abroad and wasn't homesick. As Millar, she married a French woman and lived with her in France.


Professional career


1980–1982: Early years

York's 1980 debut pro season included second in the Tour du Vaucluse to Michel Laurent and eighth in a race in which she would finish in the top ten overall in her career seven times, the
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. Returning home for the UK National Championship, she finished fifth. In 1981 she improved one place on the year before with her seventh place in the Tour de Romandie. 1981 was her first prominent finish in another race in which she would again consistently impress, the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. York finished seventh as per the Tour de Romandie and was the first of six occasions in which she would end the Dauphiné in the top ten in the General Classification.1982 saw York again finish seventh in the Tour de Romandie. In the second year of the under-23
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being opened to professionals, York finished second to
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.


1983: Tour de France debut

In 1983 York came second in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré with LeMond again finishing a place above her. With her impressive June showing in the Dauphine, York was selected for the
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for the first time. Any hopes of a high placing in the tour General Classification ended on stage three when she crashed losing seventeen minutes. 11 July was that year's tour first mountainous race crossing the Aubisque, Tourmalet, Aspin, and Peyresourde in the Pyrenees on stage ten. The only Pyrenean stage of that tour, York won the day six seconds ahead of
Pedro Delgado Pedro Delgado Robledo (; born 15 April 1960), also known as Perico (), is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989. Delgado is 171 centimetres tall (5&nb ...
. York finished fourteenth overall, twenty-three minutes behind the winner,
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and sandwiched in between two riders who would figure prominently in her career,
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in thirteenth and Delgado in fifteenth. York's debut grand tour gave her third in the mountains classification, one place above Delgado like in the General Classification with
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taking the polka dot jersey.


1984: York's best Tour de France

1984 saw continued improvement. In the early season Paris–Nice, she and her team-mates finished second in the stage four team time trial. Two days later York finished second on a stage ending on
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putting her in the overall lead at that point. She ended the race in sixth overall behind winner Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche,
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, Michel Laurent and Phil Anderson. In the
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second stage at Crans-Montana she beat
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into second place. Roche won the race with York finishing in fifth. York took the mountains competition. York also enjoyed success in the Grand Prix du Midi Libre winning a stage and finishing fourth overall. Then came York's best
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. Stage eleven again began at Pau. After crossing the climbs of the Portet d'Aspet, Core and Latrape, York won the stage finishing with a climb to
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ski station. She was forty-one seconds ahead of Luis Herrera with Delgado a further twenty seconds behind in third. York finished fourth overall (surpassing
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's sixth place in the 1960s as the best British finish at the time) with Fignon winning for the second successive year and Hinault and LeMond also ahead of York. Kelly was a place behind York in fifth. York won the "
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" polka dot jersey, the first time a native English speaker had won this jersey. On 2 September was York's best finish in the
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. Raced in Barcelona, York finished sixth with winner
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, Claudio Corti and
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taking the podium places. Other races that year included second in the
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to
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and second in Nice–Alassio to Stephen Roche. York finished seventh in the
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, won by Kelly.


1985: The "stolen Vuelta"

In 1985, the
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was still held in its April–May slot as the first of the three grand tours of the season. York took over the race lead on stage ten, a stage won by Kelly. York held the lead going into what has become one of the most infamous days' racing in the history of the event. York started the day just ten seconds ahead of Francisco Rodríguez with Spain's
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65 seconds further behind in third. With the following day's last stage of the race little more than ceremonial, York said to the press, "I just have to stick to Pacho Rodríguez's wheel and it's done." A mountainous stage with three major climbs, Rodriguez tried but was unable to make any inroads on York on the first climb of the day, the Morcuera. At the foot of the second climb, the Cotos, York punctured, meaning once the puncture had been tackled York had to chase to get back to Rodriguez and Cabestany. By the time riders reached the third climb, Los Leones, York had not only reached Rodriguez and Cabestany but was also taking their congratulations, indicating their acceptance of the race being effectively over as a contest. However, York was unaware that Delgado, in the mountains around his Segovia home town that he knew so well, had launched an attack. None of the riders in York's group made York aware of the attack by Delgado, an elite specialist climber like York, with the knowledge of the roads allowing him to descend aggressively. Delgado had support in his break from a second rider, Jose Recio. Delgado had started the day in sixth place and six minutes behind York. Working with Recio, Delgado was now nearly seven minutes ahead of York on the road. York had no team-mates in the group with Rodriguez and Cabestany as they had been unable to keep up. Recio won the stage and Delgado took overall lead of the race by thirty-six seconds from York. With the race being referred to as "The Stolen Vuelta', from the collusion among the Spanish-speaking riders, York finished second overall. Peugeot directeur sportif, Roland Berland, said "It's rotten, the whole peloton was against us. It seems a Spaniard had to win at all costs."
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's Philip Bouvet stated York was "the victim of a formidable Spanish coalition". York said afterwards "I'll never return to Spain". In the television documentary on the career of Robert Millar, "The High Life", York criticised Berland for his handling of the situation on the road when Delgado attacked, stating that Berland had been unable to negotiate support from other non-Spanish speaking teams during the stage to give York the required support to chase down Delgado's lead. Earlier that year, York had come sixth once more in the early season Paris–Nice, with Kelly again winning in his run of seven successive victories in the event. In the
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, York finished eleventh. In September, York was overall winner of the
Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of ...
, taking the leader's jersey on the penultimate stage, a individual time trial at
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. York beat Sean Kelly, the previous overall winner, by three seconds. In the
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, York finished third behind Charly Mottet. In the Tour du Haut Var, York ended seventh, with Mottet again the victor. York was fourth in the
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(won by
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). York was sixth in two races won by Stephen Roche, the Tour Midi-Pyrénées – now known as the
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 – and the
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. In the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, York placed ninth behind a winning Phil Anderson.


1986: Vuelta runner up again

York changed teams in 1986 to ride for
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. Despite her previous comment after the 1985 race, she again rode in the
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. York won stage six from Santander to Lagos de Covadonga putting her into the leader's jersey. On stage eleven however, a time trial at Valladolid,
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took over the lead and retained this to the finish with York finishing second overall like she had the year before. The winning margin was one minute and six seconds. In the Tour de France York was racing well even before the race reached the mountains with a third in the team time trial and ninth in the individual time trial on stage nine. York was placed tenth at this point. This improved further in the Pyrenees on stage thirteen from Pau crossing the Tourmalet, the Aspin, the Peyresourde and finishing at Superbagnères. York finished second on the day to eventual winner of the race, Greg LeMond. This placed York in fourth overall at this point and in the lead in the mountains competition. She retained this to the end of stage seventeen between Gap and
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. However York was battling illness and began to spiral down the placings in a struggle just to stay in the race. In the stage twenty time trial, in contrast to the ninth place in the earlier time trial, York placed 112th over ten minutes behind the stage winner (Hinault). York started stage twenty-one in fifteenth overall but climbed off her bike to abandon the race before the conical final climb of the day up the
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and seventh in the
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.


1987: Giro d'Italia

In 1987 York rode the Giro d'Italia for the only time in her career. The race provided high drama due to the controversy between two riders on the same Carrera team,
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and Roche. The two teammates battled each other, but the presence of York and her own Panasonic team-mate,
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, challenging for the race made this risky. York won stage 21 in a three-man breakaway with Roche and
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. The result moved her up to second overall and gave Roche the win as Visentini fell, broke his wrist and lost six more minutes on what was to be his last day in the race. York also took the climber's green jersey. In the Tour de Romandie, York finished fourth, a race won by Roche as was the Tour de France. York finished nineteenth in the Tour de France, although at the end of stage fourteen from Pau to Luz Ardiden York again enjoyed her zenith in the race when she was fifth overall. Like the year before she had been helped by a strong showing in the first individual time trial. However, York slipped to fifth, then sixth, before on stage nineteen she lost over fifteen minutes to slide out of contention. Elsewhere York was fifth in Liège–Bastogne–Liège with
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winning for the third year running. York was sixth in the Tour of the Mediterranean ( Gerrit Solleveld won) and seventh in the
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behind winner Vicent Belda.


1988

In 1988, York joined the French
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team as had Roche and Schepers. York managed her best position in a one-day 'Monument' Classic, third in
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behind
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. York returned to the Vuelta a España and finished sixth overall with Kelly winning. In the
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, after struggling in the Alps, on stage fourteen she lost the opportunity of a repeat Pyrenees stage win in
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. York led over each of the first two climbs from Blagnac. In sprinting uphill to the finish with Phillipe Bouvatier, both riders mistook a gendarme's signals, took a wrong turn and ceded the win to Massimo Ghirotto. York finished in second on the day two seconds behind. The next day York was again riding at the front when leading over the second climb but cracked and finished twenty-one minutes behind. Stage seventeen was the last she would complete that year. High placings that year were second in the
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included third in each of the Critérium International and the Route de Sud (
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won). York was eighth in Volta a Catalunya and ninth in Paris–Nice.


1989: A third Tour stage win

York returned to one of her previous teams, Z-Peugeot as it was now known and was second overall behind Mottet after winning stage seven in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. York was a stage winner in the Tour de Romandie and a runner-up in the Grand Prix de Wallonie to
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. She rode only one grand tour for the first time since 1984, and she had her best placing in the tour since the 1984 race. She won stage ten of the 1989 Tour de France from
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to Superbagnères. York was first to the top of all four of that day's climbs scaling the Tourmalet, Aspin, and Peyresourde before the Superbagnères finish. Charly Mottet was dropped from the three-man group approaching the finish leaving York to out sprint Delgado at the line. York was placed eighth at this point and ended that year's tour in tenth. In the autumn York was overall winner in the Tour of Britain with her decisive move coming in a long two-man breakaway with Mauro Gianetti into Cardiff. Gianetti took the sprint for the stage but York comfortably stayed in yellow for the rest of the race. Other top ten placings included eighth in the Tour de Vaucluse (Rooks won) and ninth in the Grand Prix of the Americas.


1990: Dauphiné Libéré

Victory in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré arrived in 1990. York was in a stage six, two-person breakaway with
Thierry Claveyrolat Thierry Claveyrolat (31 March 1959 – 7 September 1999) was a French road bicycle racer. He was King of the Mountains in the 1990 Tour de France. Racing career Claveyrolat grew up in the shadow of the Alps in the Isère region near Grenoble ...
. Both riders finished in the top five in the leading group the next day. Stage eight was an individual time trial and despite strong time trialists being in the peloton such as Roche and Toni Rominger, York took the overall title with Claveyrolat the runner up. York was runner up for a second time in the Tour de Suisse with Kelly the victor that year. York was a stage winner in the Tour de Romandie (Mottet took overall prize). York took fourth place in the
Giro di Lombardia The Giro di Lombardia ( en, Tour of Lombardy), officially ''Il Lombardia'', is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy. It is traditionally the last of the five ' Monuments' of the season, considered to be one of the most prestigious one-day events in ...
behind
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. In between, she also took second place in the 1990 Tour of Britain hampered by a crash on the last day. In the Tour de France York rode as part of the team intended to support the previous year's winner and reigning world champion, Greg LeMond. The Z team not only helped deliver the yellow jersey for LeMond but also won the team competition. York though was denied the yellow cap award from the competition her team led from stage ten onwards. Stage fourteen was the last she completed on the tour that year. This was York's third and last withdrawal from the eleven times she rode the tour. Other placings in the top ten that year included fourth in the
Vuelta a Andalucía The Vuelta a Andalucía (Tour of Andalusia) or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race first held in 1925. Since 2005, it has been a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became a part of the new UCI ...
and ninth in
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.


1991

York won a stage in the 1991 Tour de Suisse and finished fifth overall. That year was her best overall finish in the Tour de Romandie, second, with Rominger the man denying York the title. She was second in the debut edition of the
Classique des Alpes Classique des Alpes was a classic taking place as a mountainous single-day cycling race. It took place in Chartreuse Mountains, beginning in Chambéry and finishing in Aix-les-Bains. It was held between 1991 and 2004, a day before the start of the ...
, fourth in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, fourth in the Tour of Britain and fifth in the Grand Prix of the Americas. She finished the
Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...
in seventy-second place, the only one of her eight finishes in the tour that was outside the top twenty-five.


1992–95: Later racing career

In 1992, York revealed her vegetarianism, which was an intention to improve her performance on the bike. "It's not a principle – it's a personal thing. I've read a lot of books about it". York completed the Tour de France in 1992 (18th) and 1993 (24th), and the Vuelta in 1992 (20th) and 1993 (15th). In a time when doping was common and bans shorter, York tested positive for testosterone after a stage of the Vuelta a España, in 1992. She was fined £1,100, lost her third place on the stage, incurred a 10-minute time penalty and was given a three-month suspended ban. In the final years of her career, she achieved top ten finishes in the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme, Giro del Piemonti and Liege – Bastogne–Liege (all in 1992), and the Classiques des Alpes and the Midi Libre (both in 1993). However, further victories largely eluded her. Her final major victory came in June 1995 when she won the National Road Race Championship. However, soon afterwards, her French team Le Groupement went bust and York retired from racing.


After racing

In 1997, York became the coach of the British national team, and in 1998 managed the Scottish team in the
Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...
, an eight-day round-Britain stage race. She also worked in journalism, writing for several cycling magazines.


Absence from public life

York and her wife were believed to have separated in the late 1990s. In 2000, a tabloid news story reported that York, still known publicly as Robert Millar, was now living as a
woman A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...
. The story hurt York, who reduced her connections with cycling, though still kept up some writing and appeared at the 2002 Commonwealth Games as Millar. Following this, however, she receded further from view and cut her ties with cycling. In 2007, journalist Richard Moore wrote a biography of York titled ''In Search of Robert Millar''. After initially refusing to respond, York did answer some of Moore's questions via email, though dramatically cut off contact. At the time, Moore wrote that "It is impossible to put a date on Millar's disappearance. It was more a fade-out than a vanishing act ... These days, Millar is in very occasional email contact with one or two former acquaintances but his whereabouts are a mystery".


Re-emergence

York partially returned to journalism in the 2010s, writing a blog for ''Cyclingnews'' and later writing occasionally for other publications including ''The Guardian''. She remained a private figure, but following her announcement of her gender transition joined the
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commentary team for the 2017 Tour de France.


In popular culture

During the mid-1980s York appeared in television commercials for Kellogg's '
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' cereal. A one-hour Granada Television documentary about York's 1985 racing season, entitled ''The High Life'', which also included appearances by
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and music by Steve Winwood, was screened in Britain on the eve of the 1986 Tour de France. ''Robert Millar – The High Life'' was rediscovered and screened, simultaneously with the release of the book, at Edinburgh Bike Week Film Festival on 26 June 2007. A DVD version of the documentary was released in 2008. In 2011, Millar authored analytical opinions for ''Cyclingnews'' during the Tour de France. In June 2021, a large mural was created by artist Rogue-One on a gable wall in
Lennoxtown Lennoxtown ( gd, Baile na Leamhnachd, ) is a town in East Dunbartonshire council area and the historic county of Stirlingshire, Scotland at the foot of the Campsie Fells, which are just to the north. The town had a population of 4,094 at the 20 ...
, Scotland depicting an image of York as Robert Millar in the polka-dot jersey; the building is located at the edge of the
Campsie Fells The Campsie Fells (also known as the Campsies; Scottish Gaelic: ''Monadh Chamaisidh'') are a range of hills in central Scotland, stretching east to west from Denny Muir to Dumgoyne in Stirlingshire and overlooking Strathkelvin to the south. Th ...
where she trained as a cyclist specialising in hill-climbing.


Personal life

As Millar, York married a French woman, Sylvie Transler, in December 1985. No one from York's family was in attendance, nor any team-mates, who had no idea York even had a girlfriend. Panasonic team-mate Phil Anderson commented, "He didn't seem to have the skills for getting on with men, let alone women". The couple were believed to have separated by the late 1990s. As a cyclist, York had a reputation for being taciturn and could be uncooperative with the media. Jeff Connor, author of ''Wide Eyed & Legless: Inside the Tour de France'' was told to "fuck off" when requesting an interview during the 1987 Tour de France. When told this, commentator
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replied, "That sounds like Millar, he's been really awkward with us in the past. Personally, I think it's a disgrace. He has a duty to his sponsor to represent the team and you don't do that by telling journalists to 'fuck off'." During commentary for Stage 23 of the 1987 Tour de France, Liggett stated " t has been avery disappointing Tour for Robert. He has lost a lot of popularity, too, one has to say. He won't speak to journalists and the team itself anasonicis also becoming discontented with Robert this year." York subsequently left Panasonic at the end of the 1987 season, to join Fagor. York's disappearance during the 2000s was at the time attributed to these characteristics of insularity and eccentricity. At the time, rumours of a gender transition were largely disregarded. On 6 July 2017, in a statement on ''Cyclingnews'', York confirmed her gender transition. She wrote that: York is the first former professional cyclist to have publicly transitioned. She is not related to
David Millar David Millar (born 4 January 1977) is a Scottish retired professional road racing cyclist. He rode for Cofidis from 1997 to 2004 and Garmin-Sharp from 2008 to 2014. He has won four stages of the Tour de France, five of the Vuelta a España an ...
, a fellow road cyclist from the west of Scotland whose main success came in the mid-2000s.


Career achievements


Major results

Source: ;1976 : 1st Road race, Scottish Junior Road Championships ;1978 : 1st Road race, National Amateur Road Championships : 1st Overall Tour of the Peak : 1st Scottish Hill-Climb Championship : 2nd Overall
Premier Calendar The British Cycling Premier Calendar Road Race Series is a season-long competition run by British Cycling. It comprises a series of road bicycle races for the country's top domestic road riders. Organisation and events In 2010 points were awar ...
;1979 : 1st Road race, National Amateur Road Championships : 1st Overall Merlin Plage Trophy : 1st Paris–Évreux : 1st Overall Route de France (Under-23) : 1st GP de la Ville de Lillers : 1st GP de la Boucherie : 4th Road race, UCI Amateur Road World Championships ;1980 : 2nd Overall
Tour du Vaucluse The Tour du Vaucluse ''(Tour of the Vaucluse)'' is a former cycling race, held in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. From 1923 until 1960 it was organized as a one-day race finishing in Cavaillon Cav ...
: 8th Overall
Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. I ...
: 10th
Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transformed ...
;1981 : 5th Overall Tour de l'Aude : 5th
GP du Canton d'Argovie Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of ...
: 6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 7th Overall
Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. I ...
;1982 : 2nd Overall
Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...
: 7th Overall
Tour de Romandie The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI World Tour. It runs through the Romandie region, or French-speaking part of Switzerland. The competition began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year anniversary of Swiss Cycling. I ...
: 7th Overall
Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Ho ...
;1983 : 1st Stage 10
Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...
: 2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ;1984 : 2nd Overall 1984 Tour du Haut Var, Tour du Haut Var : 2nd Nice–Alassio : 4th Overall
Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...
::1st Mountains classification in the Tour de France, Mountains classification ::1st Stage 11 : 4th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre ::1st Stage 4 : 5th Overall 1984 Tour de Romandie, Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Overall 1984 Paris–Nice, Paris–Nice ::1st Stage 11 : 6th 1984 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 1984 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 7th Overall 1984 Volta a Catalunya, Volta a Catalunya : 9th 1984 Clásica de San Sebastián, Clásica de San Sebastián ;1985 : 1st Overall 1985 Volta a Catalunya, Volta a Catalunya : 2nd Overall
Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the ...
::1st Combination classification in the Vuelta a España, Combination classification : 3rd
Giro del Piemonte The Giro del Piemonte, since 2009 known also as Gran Piemonte, is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. The race first took place in 1906. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Eu ...
: 4th
Grand Prix de Wallonie The Grand Prix de Wallonie is an annual road bicycle race held annually in Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, ...
: 6th Overall 1985 Paris–Nice, Paris–Nice : 6th Overall
Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, typically the last weekend of March. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in 1932. For many years ...
: 6th Overall Route d'Occitanie, Tour Midi-Pyrénées : 7th Overall 1985 Tour du Haut Var, Tour du Haut Var : 8th Overall La Méditerranéenne, Tour Méditerranéen : 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 10th 1985 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, Road race, 1985 UCI Road World Championships, UCI Road World Championships : 10th 1985 Clásica de San Sebastián, Clásica de San Sebastián ;1986 : 2nd Overall
Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the ...
::1st Stage 6 : 2nd Overall 1986 Tour de Suisse, Tour de Suisse : 6th Overall
Vuelta a Aragón Vuelta a Aragón is a professional bicycle road race held in Spain in May of each year. The event was first run in 1939, and was not held between 2006 and 2017. The future of the race is uncertain; there had been plans to organise it again, but an ...
: 10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues ;1987 : 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia, Mountains classification ::1st Stage 21 : 4th Overall 1987 Tour de Romandie, Tour de Romandie : 5th 1987 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 6th Overall Tour Mediterranean ::1st Stage 1 : 7th Overall
Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme The Catalan Cycling Week (''Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme'' in Catalan) was a multi-stage road bicycle race held in Catalonia, Spain. Held annually from 1963 until 2005, it was run as a 2.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour in the second half of March ...
;1988 : 2nd Overall
Bicicleta Vasca Euskal Bizikleta (Spanish: ''Bicicleta Vasca'', English: ''Basque Bicycle'') was an annual road cycling stage race held in the Basque Country in June. From 2005 to 2008, the race was organized as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, it w ...
: 3rd Overall
Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, typically the last weekend of March. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in 1932. For many years ...
: 3rd Overall
Route du Sud The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...
: 3rd 1988 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 6th Overall 1988 Vuelta a España, Vuelta a España : 8th Overall 1988 Volta a Catalunya, Volta a Catalunya : 9th Overall 1988 Paris–Nice, Paris–Nice : 10th Overall Tour of Ireland, Nissan Classic ;1989 : 1st Overall 1989 Tour of Britain, Tour of Britain : 2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 6b (Individual time trial, ITT) : 2nd
Grand Prix de Wallonie The Grand Prix de Wallonie is an annual road bicycle race held annually in Wallonia Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, ...
: 3rd Overall 1989 Tour de Romandie, Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 4 :7th Étoile de Bessèges, GP Bessèges : 8th Paris–Camembert : 9th Grand Prix des Amériques (cycling race), Grand Prix des Amériques : 10th Overall 1989 Tour de France, Tour de France ::1st Stage 10 ;1990 : 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 2nd Overall 1990 Tour de Romandie, Tour de Romandie ::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Overall 1990 Tour de Suisse, Tour de Suisse ::1st Mountains classification : 2nd Overall 1990 Tour of Britain, Tour of Britain ::1st Mountains classification : 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucia : 4th 1990 Giro di Lombardia, Giro di Lombardia : 4th 1990 GP Ouest–France, GP Ouest–France : 7th Grand Prix de Rennes : 9th 1990 La Flèche Wallonne, La Flèche Wallonne ;1991 : 2nd Overall 1991 Tour de Romandie, Tour de Romandie : 2nd
Classique des Alpes Classique des Alpes was a classic taking place as a mountainous single-day cycling race. It took place in Chartreuse Mountains, beginning in Chambéry and finishing in Aix-les-Bains. It was held between 1991 and 2004, a day before the start of the ...
: 4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 4th Overall 1991 Tour of Britain, Tour of Britain : 5th Overall 1991 Tour de Suisse, Tour de Suisse ::1st Stage 5 (Individual time trial, ITT) : 5th Grand Prix des Amériques (cycling race), Grand Prix des Amériques ;1992 : 6th Giro del Lazio : 7th
Giro del Piemonte The Giro del Piemonte, since 2009 known also as Gran Piemonte, is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. The race first took place in 1906. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Eu ...
: 9th Overall 1992 Tour of Britain, Tour of Britain : 9th Overall
Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme The Catalan Cycling Week (''Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme'' in Catalan) was a multi-stage road bicycle race held in Catalonia, Spain. Held annually from 1963 until 2005, it was run as a 2.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour in the second half of March ...
: 9th 1992 Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1993 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a los Valles Mineros : 6th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre : 7th Overall Vuelta a Asturias : 9th
Classique des Alpes Classique des Alpes was a classic taking place as a mountainous single-day cycling race. It took place in Chartreuse Mountains, beginning in Chambéry and finishing in Aix-les-Bains. It was held between 1991 and 2004, a day before the start of the ...
;1994 : 6th Coppa Placci : 7th Coppa Sabatini : 9th Overall Tour of Galicia ;1995 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 9th
Classique des Alpes Classique des Alpes was a classic taking place as a mountainous single-day cycling race. It took place in Chartreuse Mountains, beginning in Chambéry and finishing in Aix-les-Bains. It was held between 1991 and 2004, a day before the start of the ...


General classification results timeline


Honours

* Scottish Sports Hall of Fame: 2003 * British Cycling Hall of Fame: 2009


See also

* List of British cyclists * List of Tour de France secondary classification winners * List of people from Glasgow


References


Bibliography

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External links

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Former Tour de France cyclist Philippa York on her transition from Robert Millar
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