Their triumphant journey along the Adriatic coast was the result of a real frenzy. What effort these hunting scenes cost him, what strength he tried to mobilize in the last 206 kilometers, which seemed endless. Romain Bardet At the end of what was for him an unforgettable thriller in Rimini with a happy ending, the Frenchman said: “We were two friends on a bike who rode as fast as we could and overcame the pain together.”