27.8.10

A week or so later

This is on july 25th. Oggy's been gone for a week. I just can't remember what I have done during that week...
So here comes Sunday, and... well this looks pretty crowded!

What is going on? France's most famous avenue is closed to traffic.
You guessed right: the Champs Elysées.

Giant screens allow spectators to keep a look on the race still 80 km away.
I have no way of seeing the road with all this crowd. And I don't really want to be waiting one or 2 hours... So I keep walking. People everywhere.
Here's is the caravan! Obviously done for this year.
These people are actually massed around a tunnel entrance. In still an hour or so the race will go underneath. I just keep walking home.
And then, as I'm almost there, I see a familiar car...
The "gendarmes",
And here is Contador (and his teammates... clue: Contador wears the maillot jaune)
And the followers...
... and they're gone. It lasted what? 20 seconds? probably less.

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