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Abduction alert in the peloton. There are three days of racing left and the runners have nothing left in their socks. Their energy is gone. “I think everyone is cooked”, loose Romain Bardet, at the top of Peyragudes (Hautes-Pyrénées), quickly joined by Valentin Madouas in his observation of generalized exhaustion: “We feel that the bodies are very tired. It’s no use playing with them, it’s a blow to explode. Both are above, you have to be realistic. There’s no point in trying to follow them. »