Another head walk for the very rich collection of the Haut-Garonnais de Groupama. Still no bouquet, but the podium honors anyway.
On combativeness podium, the “trophy” 21 in the hands, “papach” dares a shy smile. He is probably happy, but does not frequent the hero scene enough to show himself quite comfortable. In addition, mystery of the protocol, he is asked to come back and stay for another photo with the white jersey Florian Lipowitz, and kids …
The Toulousain was the first in action and he has hit the whole stage or almost, without jumping a relay of course, you know him, at the front of this new day, maybe not as crazy as others but still carried out, bugs, trumpets and drums! The obsessive music of cicadas, replaced by that of the bikes which spin in the rain, the soundtrack of the public anyway much stronger than that of the Ventoux, it went up to Valence with three other brave, the essential Abrahamsen (“frankly, it is still impressive with its pedal stroke, when you drive with it, it is spectaulaire!”) And Burgaudeau, the Italian Albanese, the Italian Albanese, Quartet.
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“We haven’t seen anyone come back …”
“Today, we had in mind to participate in the entry movement race he explains, we suspected that it was going to move … We were only three but with this gap, I was hoping that it comes out after the two bumps and that we were qautre or five more, it would not have been bad to try to resist the peloton at the end. The ineos and van Aert tried but we saw no one come back… ”
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So of course the kilometers have become longer (mathematically it may not be possible, but on a bicycle, we assure you that it happens), the heavier pedals, the a little shorter relays and the gap that goes out. When Abrahamsen left, the bearded man got up, swallowed by the pack but avoiding the fall. And then he learned that he was the combative of the day and that he would have rights to the honors delivered with it. “I was a little surprised, but I take he concluded, laughing, and then, it gives motivation.” After Armirail in Boulogne and Hautacam, Pacher in Valence. In Occitania we know that fighting means!