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Le Tour de France 2016 - 14. Stage 14: Montélimar / Villars les Dombes Parc des Oiseaux
An undulating road runs north from Montélimar
On course are our cycling superstars
Names now known from former stages
Or upstages.
What of the names unknown?
Those numbered riders we see
Loitering by the open windows
Of team cars.
It is their job to disengage
To drop back and collect provisions
Stuff their jersey cheeks with bottles
Ride back up to the pack
Refuel their team.
It is their job to pace back a team member
Who has lost time due to injury
Or mechanical issue
Or crash
Or natural break.
It is their job to nurse a sprinter
Over the long climbs
Of the mountain stages
So that he may go on
To a fourth stage win
In this year's Tour.
Congratulations to Mark Cavendish
And his Dimension Data
Domestiques.
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