Updated:01/24/2021 00: 55h
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The Dutchman Theo de Rooy had the microphone put to his nose as soon as he finished a Paris-Roubaix in the eighties. “It’s bullshit… This race is a lot of shit, you suffer like an animal, you don’t have time to piss, you do it on yourself, you pedal on mud, you slip, you must clean the mud if you don’t want to lose your mind … ». “Will you ever come back?” The journalist wanted to know. “Of course, it is the most beautiful race in the world,” he replied.
Those heated conclusions of Theo De Rooy link to another famous phrase in cycling. “If you can achieve something effortlessly, it won’t be satisfying”stated Greg Lemond after winning one of his three Tours. Towards that unknown world he embarks
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