Le Route. Oh.

Friday, 9 September 2011

Quote of the Tour

Breakfast, Day 6:  Mr Von Schilling to the boys: "What's the biggest thing you've swallowed this week?".  Stunned silence all around.
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What it is all about

1910: At the top of the Aubisque, Desgrange (the founder of the Tour De France) and the other officials awaited the first riders. It was Lapize who emerged first, his face a perfect rictus of agony. On the stage’s final climb and with the pain of the Tourmalet still in his legs, it was at that moment that Lapize uttered the words for which he would become famous: “Vous êtes des assassins!”