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00:00 (crowd cheering)
00:02 - This magnificent man, Claudio Kim,
00:08 still holding off the fight of the Tour de France today.
00:12 - So it's gonna be very close on the line.
00:13 - Totally wild, this is what is known, I think,
00:16 as invading the field.
00:17 - I've never seen it.
00:17 - It must be like running across Wembley Stadium.
00:20 - The 1992 Tour de France featured a stage like no other.
00:28 Col de Saisy, Cormier de Roselan, Col d'Iseran,
00:33 Col de Montsigny, and the Sestriere.
00:36 Five brutal climbs, 255 kilometers,
00:41 7,000 meters of altitude.
00:43 A fearsome day to tackle on your bike.
00:46 But one rider decided he was up to the ultimate challenge.
00:51 One rider attacked almost as soon as the stage started.
00:54 That rider's name, Claudio Chierpucci.
00:58 They call him El Diablo, the devil.
01:02 - The great Claudio Chierpucci has not let the side down
01:05 with an escapade at the Alps we'll talk about
01:07 for years to come.
01:09 - I was thinking like the bike riders,
01:10 there's no way he can survive out there, it's impossible.
01:12 - The race kicks off to early half
01:14 of the peloton, it was his elimination.
01:16 And I don't think he got that memo.
01:19 - The man against the mountains,
01:20 and the peloton were hoping the mountains would win.
01:23 (speaking in foreign language)
01:27 - As he approached Sestriere, one last climb.
01:30 I can only imagine all the goose flesh I'd be getting.
01:33 It was theater, pure theater.
01:34 - 31 years later, I'm going to attempt
01:38 to replicate that infamous ride.
01:40 Me versus the mountains.
01:43 - I think if the peloton saw that sort of profile
01:45 in modern day racing at the Grand Tour,
01:47 they'd say, "I'm not going."
01:49 - Look at that.
01:50 I don't know what he was thinking, attacking on this climb.
01:54 He must've just had diamonds in his legs.
01:57 - I cannot believe this stage.
02:00 It's just ridiculous.
02:02 My arms, my legs, I can't breathe.
02:05 Today I won't forget, that's for sure.
02:08 (speaking in foreign language)
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