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She is perched so high on this podium erected between heaven and earth that we no longer really know where she comes from. “From another planet?” slips, admiringly, the young Frenchwoman Evita Muzic who witnessed her take off this weekend. Annemiek van Vleuten always directs her gaze towards the peaks. In order to better gauge the summits that she tames, like this Sunday, parading on a ridge in the foothills of the Vosges draped in her yellow tunic as a winner of this Renaissance Tour? Or does she raise her eyes a little further, beyond this Super Board of Beautiful Girls which has just crowned its first queen in a summer light?