Tour de France 2025: Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet, between mountain stages and philosophical escapes
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The Groupama-FDJ rider, winner of this year's Tour du Jura, can be proud of having finished in 2020 with the polka-dot jersey for best climber in the Vuelta a España. Bernard Papon / PRESSE SPORTS
Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet, 32, is one of the best French cyclists of his generation. The author of philosophy books loves mountain stages more than anything. The intense effort, he says, brings him to a state of intoxication, even ecstasy, conducive to exploits and flashes of thought. Close to the peaks 3/4
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I subscribePanache and grandeur. In his books as on his bike, Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet displays his talent and his audacity. In a singular philosophical escapade (1), the French cyclist, one of the best of his generation, brings his champion, Nietzsche, into dialogue with Pascal across the centuries. To evoke the meaning of existence, the place or absence of God, the athlete takes care to place this discussion in the tight bends of a Pyrenean pass that the two thinkers climb by bike, like a summary of life's trials, facing a nature that surpasses us. And it is the German philosopher – to whom the author dedicated a master's thesis as a student – who takes the upper hand over his predecessor.
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