It rained and was cold yesterday on the Tourmalet. And so Julian Alaphilippe, Concerned by the many kilometers that were still missing from the finish line of Luchon Superbagneres did not think twice: he torn a cardboard from hand that supported a fans of Wout Van Aert, he made it to pieces and then he put it on the chest to protect himself from the cold. So it was done once, so the newspapers were once used when the fiber cloaks that tighten in a palm were not yet existed. And so it still works today when you don’t have time to wait for the flagship or more simply when the cape is not there. It must be said, Alaphilippe was not a gentleman. He didn’t even read that sign, he didn’t even see the girl in his face with the polka dot shirt that couldn’t wait to show him to his champion and that everything expected except the Frenchman took him away. And in fact it has been seen that it was bad, it was seen that it was surprised, that she mentioned chasing it but the cardboard had now flown away with the French towards the top of the Tourmalet. Alaphilippe did not realize the rude. Or perhaps not entirely, so much so that when the operators in the motorcycle of French TV framed him intent on covering themselves showed smiling at the cameras a beautiful thumb raised to say: “Everything ok, now I can do the descent calm, problem solved …”. But then the climbs pass, the descents as well, the fatigue vanishes after a nice hot shower and a massage and in the hotel someone must have pointed out to the French champion that that poor girl, recovering in a worldly one, had not been very well, that it had not been a beautiful scene, which perhaps it was appropriate to do something. And then the Tudor staff has been busy, they tracked it down and the apologies came to the departure this morning with lots of photos with Van Aert. There was also the torn sign, what was left of the torn sign. It was written: “Wout still does not know, but we get married …”. That it will not happen, that remains a dream flown away on the ramps of the tournalet, which applies to what is worth. But Alaphilippe has nothing to do with it …