A tandem rider was stopped by a gendarme. 'What've I done, officer?' asks the
rider.
'Perhaps you didn't notice sir, but your wife fell off your bike a kilometre
back . . .'
'Mon Dieu', said the rider - 'I thought I'd gone deaf!'
Traditionally the Tour de France has a Patron. A leader who rules the
peloton like a medieval warlord rules his kingdom. Will and Guy
remember back to the 1960s when Jacques Anquetil was lord of the peloton.
Since then we have seen the role of Patron pass to Eddie Merckx,
Bernard Hinault, Greg Lemond, Miguel Induráin and latterly, by Lance
Armstrong. What's intriguing about the 2008 race is there is no
natural Patron.
So what are the characteristics of a Patron? Firstly he has to be
fierce rider; relentless at time trials, capable of sprouting wings on
mountain stages. More than pure cycling ability, Le Patron has a
dominant Alpha male personality. The final characteristics for
dominating the peloton are the cunning of a fox, and the strategic planning
of chess grandmaster.
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