This Thursday, July 17, on the occasion of the 12th stage of the 112nd edition between Auch and Hautacam, the Bagnérais climbed alone in mind when he saw Pogacar pass … end of a beautiful day for him. He again touched the price of fighting spirit.
We do not hear what the president tells him but we feel that they speak the same language. Shipped to the protocol zone by his never denied generosity, Bruno Armirail grew up and lives at the foot of the mountains where Emmanuel Macron spent his child’s vacation. Aboard the red carriage of Christian Prudhomme, which he frequented almost every summer, he was able to appreciate this particular guide, alone in mind before the firing of the Pogacar rocket.
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“It was not so easy,” says the Pyrenean who touches the price of fighting spirit a second time (the first time it was in Boulogne-sur-Mer). You had to be able to be in the escape, which I managed to do, and then, I tried to go as far as possible. I gave everything, people encouraged me, I heard my first name permanently … “
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During the skimming of the Soulor, he ended up with the best of this “strip of fifty” formed on the roads of the Gers (among the other French people at the front, Bryan Coquard was played a new bad trick, broke a finger by grabing a musette!). Woods, the Puy-de-Dôme winner on the Tour and two “Route d’Occitanie-La Dépêche du Midi”, Storer, Skjelmose and Rubio.
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“I watched it and … goodbye!”
The “Canadian Andorran” tilted Soulor at the top but Bruno returned to the descent before letting go of his companions. “I knew all the bumps, all the roads, I often do them in training pursues the Cieutat roller. It was so good to be able to live this, I had chills … running at home, and in addition on the Tour, it is something exceptional.”
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Of course, the victory is still not at the end. “With so little advance, two minutes at the foot, I knew that it would not be possible. It would have taken me at least five or six minutes to be able to hope. When Tadej passed, I took advantage, I looked at him and … goodbye!”
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Today, still in his Hautes-Pyrénées, he will again be able to put his beautiful blue-white-red combination. Fourth in the first time in Normandy, he will not be able to repeat this performance. “It will be completely different. In the coast, it’s quite special, there will be climbers in addition to the general’s best. If I can do between fifteen and twenty, it will already be not bad …”
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The Pyrenean has not forgotten to recall that he would still try his luck. In any case, yesterday during the rout of the band at “twenty”, it was the Visma which punctured the screen!
