The last day in the Pyrenees.
It is warm at the start.
Team Philosophe rides in a leisurely fashion, alongside Arne-Doppelganger.
Vello: No point going too fast this morning.
David: Yes, the race seems a foregone conclusion.
Arne-Doppelganger: How can you say this?
David: Froomey is the strongest.
Arne-Dopelganger: Yes, but there is always the luck.
Vello: One person's luck is another person's misfortune.
David: Did you just make that up?
Vello; Why, not wise enough for you?
David: No, frankly.
Arne-Doppelganger: I must agree with David. Sometimes one's luck and misfortune can get mixed up.
Vello: Of course, I was forgetting your situation. It must be quite tantalising for you to be so near my daughter.
Arne-Doppelganger: No, it is perfectly fine. We manage.
Vello: You mean to say......? But... you look just like Gaius! How can she!
David: Best not go there, old chap.
Vello: Humph! Absolutely!
Arne-Doppelganger: In fact I was thinking of the case of Alberto Contador. He is widely thought to have had a vision. Some say it brought him bad luck. He certainly had some.
David: Your point being?
Arne-Doppelganger: Alberto believes it was a blessing.
Vello: What nonsense! Alberto had bad luck. Then he had better luck. But he still isn't winning.
Arne-Doppelganger: And then there's the All-Knowing Dog.
David: Well, we know THAT must be nonsense! It's just Farky.
Arne-Doppelganger: But he does have an influence.
Vello: If he does, it's in people's heads.
Arne-Doppelganger: I hear he's lost a certain degree of his powers, since Gaius, (the other one), lost one of his teeth in the grass.
Vello: Oh ha ha! Isn't life complicated. So he's only Nine-Tenths Knowing.
David: Are we nearly there yet?
Arne-Doppelganger: No. And I hear it is hailing at Plateau de Beille.
Vello: Forewarned is forearmed.
David: Don't tell me you packed a raincoat!
Vello: I'm sure Belle will bring one.
They ride on towards the rain and the hail storm.
Arne-Doppelganger speeds up, hoping to make a good showing for Belle.
What a pity he looks like old Gaius.
But Belle is okay with that. Or is she just being kind?
You should never let self doubt set in.
Joaquim 'Purito' Rodriguez from Team Katusha zooms past him.....
........and wins the stage.
I have never won a Grand Tour, says Purito, but that doesn't mean I don't deserve it. I just haven't had the luck of the big champions.
Of course, no one believes him.
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