Experienced rider, former stage winner on the Tropicale Amissa Bongo, in Gabon, the Frenchman Adrien Petit is competing, at 32, in his 5th Tour de France. His mission this year: to supervise the Eritrean Biniam Girmay, leader of the Intermarché-Circus-Wanty team and candidate for a stage victory. He tells us about the race from the inside, its good and its bad moments, in weekly road diaries. Today, back to two difficult days in the Alps, the body bruised after a fall.
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