An epilogue with the perfume of the Olympic Games

The yellow jersey is not that of Pogačar, but that does not prevent them from heating their voice. The spectators are there, but the Tour de France will not spend rue Lepic until the end of the day, Sunday July 27. “Here, it’s going to go up hard, so we’re going to have time to see them and in addition, they spend three times, so it was the best spot“, says one of them. The mound montmartre will be the paved theater of the last stage: a little more than a kilometer of climb, a 9 % slope and an unrivaled atmosphere, which rises.

“Having put the Lepic Street three times at the end of the stage, it can spice up this step a little which, usually, we know the scenario: it ends in the sprint on the Champs-Élysées, and there, it can rebut the cards a little“, estimates a spectator.”We know that here, there will be show, show and it will be an incredible atmosphere, we hope, as during the Olympics “, add another.

The image is in all the heads: Montmartre, Noir de Monde to welcome the cycling event of the Olympic Games. A jubilant crowd and a dream setting, offering barely believable scenes, like a German runner stopping for a toilet break in a café on rue Lepic. For the first time, in 112 years, the Tour de France will also go through the hill. “”When I saw the atmosphere here, that I was watching on TV, I was a little frustrated not to be there. I said to myself: he returns here, you shouldn’t miss. So it’s going to be crazy“Rejoices a young man in advance.

While waiting for the runners, it was necessary to find stars to encourage. Then, Jean-Luc, a cyclist in a white jersey, became their idol. In a few hours this morning, he set up the mound Montmartre several tens of times, and even has an Instagram account in his name.