The Tour de France traditionally accompanies the start of summer with its exploits, its champions, its dramas, its scandals and its tears. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the organizers to postpone the Grande Boucle, which should leave Nice on August 29. While waiting for the Tour, "Le Figaro" revisits some of the epic days of July and some of its key players.
The impatient Englishman. July 13, 1967 lets slip the 13th stage of the Tour de France between Marseille and Carpentras, bristling with Mont Ventoux, pyramid surmounted by a white cap that will deliver a dramatic episode. "The bald mountain", a scarecrow, whose isolation reinforces the threat. Seen from afar, Mont Ventoux stands out as if torn from the landscape and continues to grow to haunt the attackers. At the foot of the staircase, the steep ascent is accompanied by scents of olive, oak, pine, beech, larch, cedar, preceding on leaving the forest a final of wind and fire.
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