It's hard to say what Tor Founder Henry de Grange meant when describing Karl
de Izuard using words such as elegance and urbanity only through a small
village does civilization reach us to confirm the old saying any Frenchman
will flock to the street to cheer on a suffering cyclist this village this
hints of civilization is just one of his words trees at the very next moment
the hairpins start to push us up steepness is barbaric no civilization no
urbanity the Izuard has fooled you all de Grange would have said this mountain
is too hard for anyone to attack we continue to together sharing the pain
suffering but cast deserts what the former tour director called a new
version of hell fire is not in the landscape however hell's fire is in
our legs steepness dissolves we hope for salvation this is when Izuard kicks us
in the lungs and serves up the final two kilometers draining our last power
reserves the landscape disappears from our science
in our mind we only see the ghost of lost heroes peddling at our side in our
past faster copy Philippe Tisse Henry Policier Nicholas France John Wabic
Louison Bobet Federico Bahamontes Gino Baltala your pain is ours now
