Word Art: Le Tour de France

Le Tour de France 

Prologue.
The clock ticks.

Visions of heroes.

Le favori porte le numéro cinquante-et-un, comme Merckx en 1969. 

Speedsters hiding behind a train,
waiting, waiting, waiting.
Sprint!

Post up, arms aloft.

Maillot vert.

Breakaway glory,
or hopes dashed until the next stage?

Dossard treize à l’envers pour la bonne chance. 

Mountains loom,
peloton climbs, eagles fly.

Tourmalet.

Sweat drips,
sun beats down,
lungs burst,
heart pumps,
legs spin.

Ventoux, tragic memories of Simpson.

Seconds gained.
Minutes lost.

Screaming descents,
Alps and Pyrenees.

Chute au peloton! 

L’Autobus,
struggling to finish,
only to fight another day.

Les grimpeurs attaquent avec leurs rêves de pois rouges. 

Galibier. Souvenir Desgrange,
Dutch Corner, l’Alpe d’Huez.

Contre-le-montre. 
Cinq, quatre, trois, deux, et aller. 
Tic-tac, tic-tac. 

Paris, aux Champs-Élysées, 
enfin, le maillot jaune. 

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