The bike does not rust. For his 109e edition, the Tour de France delivered on its promises. In three weeks, it attracted 10 million viewers in front of their screens and showed hundreds of thousands of people on the side of the roads. We have rarely seen an old lady seduce so many people. From Copenhagen to the Champs-Élysées, 170 runners rode with sacred fire on their heels. They traveled 3,500 km in 21 stages at an average speed of 42 km/h during the heat wave. This is not reasonable. The sprinters had tops around 80km/h and we saw descents spinning at over 100. What do the police do? There were spectacular crashes, narrow escapes, retirements, laughter, tears and “wrong questions” on doping. How do they go so fast, so high, so far away from them? The question never ceases to torment observers. Tour writers yellow jersey Antoine Blondin said athlete “He was the one who decided to back off…
Source: Le Figaro
