Philippe Sudres, the tour of a lifetime

Director of communication for the event, Philippe Sudres (here, Sunday, on the road to the Puy de Dôme) is experiencing his 44th and last edition of the Tour de France. Press service

PORTRAIT – Director of communication for the event, Philippe Sudres is experiencing his 44th and last edition of the Tour de France this year.

Sunday, Christian Prudhomme surprised Philippe Sudres, director of communication for the Tour, who is experiencing his 44th and last Grande Boucle, to install him in a car to climb the Puy de Dôme, go back in time. That of the race and its family history, linked to Raymond Poulidor.

Le Tour, a madeleine always eaten with deep emotion. From the top of the dormant volcano, whoever likes to recall “I prefer to talk about the Tour than about me“saw the 9th stage pass, from madness to silence, and his life pass:”The Tour without the public is not the Tour. It gave something strange. The absolutely huge crowd downstairs made for a complete contrast as there was no one around when you opened the windows and you could hear the birds. This is not common on the Tour. This exceptional character was not so bad after all. There shouldn’t be absolutely no one on arrivals at altitude, there the Tour would lose out, but…

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