1.2 million views on the Tiktok official Tour de France account, nearly 400,000 views on Instagram, more than 32,000 on Facebook. This handful of seconds filmed on Friday July 11, around 2:20 p.m., under a bright sun by a executive from France TV seated at the back of a motorcycle, did not go unnoticed.
We see the Savoyard cyclist Alex Baudin, of the EF Education-Easypost training, pedaling at 45 km/h on the Val-André dike with four other escaped runners, turning to the camera and sporting a most admiring pout. Posted on social networks a few hours later, the sequence that lasts ten seconds is titled: “Beautiful view, huh Alex Baudin? »»
Marion Rousse and Laurent Jalabert have fun translating
At the time of the live Friday, the director of the stage, broadcast on France 2, had noticed this very brief passage. In the process, he had then slipped the idle into live broadcast, allowing viewers to review and, thus, better grasp this unusual image. “Ahhhh, Alex Baudin, he appreciates!” », Haded Marion Rousse, commentator of the Tour. “Rightly the end of the tower, I would come back to put my towel there!” “, Ironically added his counterpart Laurent Jalabert, a former professional runner from the 1990s and 2000s.