Le Grand Dėpart
100 years of Tours de France
We can hardly keep it in our pants
Through war and shady circumstance
Le Tour expands it's audience
A spectacle of huff and puff
We love it 'cause it is so tough
You have to be quite mad to try it
When all uncertainties run riot
Form and fortune
Even the weather
Can undo one altogether
Let alone a team nine strong
How can they all get along?
Strategy and over-training
little rest and too much raining
rough terrain and mountains steep
Lots of thoughts to ruin sleep
I'd call it delirium world wide
From Le Tour you cannot hide
Famous for it's elite pain
Destroying guys who try again
Wanting to beat their own game
and bring their team success and fame
and sometimes only bringing shame
Many to cheer and some to blame
A tolerance for ambiguity
Permeates pro-cyc' community
These men have brawn, and brains, and heart
Let's praise the hundredth 'Le Tour' start
And Thanks to hostess France--La Belle
Let's hope this race goes VERY well.
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