His voice says everything about the feelings that cross him. She betrays a little stress and impatience, a lot of desires. She tells the happiness he is ready to welcome when he literally goes to complete a loop. Close a parenthesis left open on frustration, a taste of unfinished, an abandonment. It was 30 years ago …
Eric Boyer was then a name of the peloton, a very good runner, one of the best in the world, a French cador. In 1988, the climber from Essonne had finished 5th in the Tour de France, under the orders of Cyrille Guimard, thus placing himself in the landscape, with Bernard Hinault above and Laurent Fignon not far.