Captains and water carriers

Cycling almost 4000 kilometres in three weeks, staying in a different hotel every night, eating almost the same food every day. Headache or flu are no excuse; the Tour de France continues. Annoying, flat stages, short turns along precipices, hail and rain, always a headwind, but also that stinking sun on your neck all day long. Getting up at seven in the morning, eating spaghetti and having your legs massaged, then riding 267 kilometres and finishing 13 minutes after the winner. In the 1992 Tour, a handful of favourites are after each other's lives. Breukink is out for revenge, Indurain wants to win again, Bugno thinks this should be his year, Hampsten still has something to prove, Chioccioli is riding his first Tour, Chiappucci is already laughing again, Rooks thinks he's good, Theunisse has been cycling for a whole season, Bouwmans is making his debut, Leblanc is thinking about yellow again and Lemond... what does he want again? Besides the leaders, there are others riding around, guys who may still be