Rather than reporting the who, what, when and why, their goal has been to transport their readers into the race, to praise, to chastise and to mythologize, and nowhere has this been more evident than in the mountains and the feats of Émile Georget, Gustave Garrigou and the ‘fleshless men’, as they’ve been described by writer and former L’Équipe correspondent Philippe Bordas, who have followed them.
