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After a breathtaking scenario, it was ultimately the French Valentin Paret-Peintre who won during the 16th stage of the Tour de France on the legendary Mont Ventoux. A victory that risks inflating the notoriety of the runner.
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When you are a champion, the slightest furtive appearance caused a sensation. This morning, from the 17th stage, the star is called Valentin Paret-Peintre, to believe that certain victories mark the memories. “”I was thoroughly, I shouted behind my TV. Valentin won, we all jumped with joy, we hugged each other and everything. It was really a very beautiful moment of sport. It remains the Tour de France, so it is good that it is the French who win, “the various supporters are ranging.
His name was never cited among the favorites. But despite his 50 kilos and his small size, the Frenchman succeeded in his crazy bet at the top of Mont Ventoux. An overflowing and electric emotion in his team's car. Scenes of joy and cries, a victory on the Tour de France is priceless. A hero in blue, white, red, fifth French only in history to be won at the top of the Provence giant, after Poulidor, Bernard Hinault and a certain Thévenet in 1972. A victory at the top of a myth that changed his life. “”The notoriety rate will increase tense, for sure, because the Ventoux is a legendary rise. It will pursue him all his career and maybe even after, because it is really a prestige victory,“Esides Bernard Thévenet, former winner of the Tour de France in 1975 and 1977. A popularity changed forever, this is the fate of runners who, on the Tour de France, provoke happiness.
