The Belgian’s masterpiece in Calais is the latest in a series that saw the greatest champions of all time as protagonists when they wore the symbols of primacy in the great Tours
It’s one thing to win. It is one thing to do like Wout Van Aert. Go and leave everyone there when you have the yellow shirt on. Surprise them, detach them, use a small tear along the Norman coast, the Col du Blanc Nez, as if it were a diving board, take five, ten, fifty meters, listen to the oooooooohhhhh of wonder of those who had left the house to wait for the group and instead they found themselves in front of her king, without warning, all of a sudden, oooooooohhhhh, how wonderful, magnifique. Surprise them, detach them.