A “philosopher-climber” took the stage victory and the lead of mountains classification at the Tour de l'Avenir Thursday, at the French-Italian border, in the ski resort of La Rosière. Indeed, Guillaume Martin, the Frenchman who is now second overall at three seconds behind Austria's Gregor Mühlberger, completed Masters in philosophy in June at Nanterre University, close to Paris. His subject of studies was, somehow a question of sport: the links between spirit and body in the work of Friedrich Nietzsche.
In one world, mountains mean to Martin both Thus Spoke Zarathustra (the famous book in which a sage goes up and down a mountain) and his favourite playground as a cyclist.
Prior to the Tour de l'Avenir this year he captured Liège-Bastogne-Liège U23, the oldest French amateur classic Annemasse-Bellegarde and went 4th in the Ronde de l'Isard.
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On Thursday he launched an attack on the penultimate climb of stage 6 of the Tour de l'Avenir and won after a solo attack in La Rosière-Montvalezan, near the Italian border, saving six seconds to Mühlberger who came back very quickly in last ramps and put him under serious threat.
This victory is a real ease for Martin, who has struggled to find top results after he showed himself at the 2011 Junior World Championships, when he gave up with his personal ambitions and supported Pierre-Henri Lecuisinier (now an FDJ professionnal) to take the rainbow jersey.
Martin has suffered with asthma until this year and could never do better than a domestique work at the Tour de l'Avenir. His health now back in order, he is part of the French National team at the “U23 Tour de France”, alongside Jérémy Maison (a neo-pro to FDJ next year), who crashed on Thursday while he was alone in front – the 'Tricolores' have had some very emotional days with a terrible disillusion and then the triumph of their other leader.
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