La victoire ne luis suffisait pas.
Il lui fallait l’exploit et la légende.
Plus que contre ses adversaires,
qu’il battait et battait encore,
Eddy Merckx courait contre lui-même,
a la recherche d’un absolu,
qu’il atteignt parfois.
For him victory was not enough.
He needed to create exploits and legends.
More than against his adversaries,
whom he beat time and again,
Eddy Merckx raced against himself,
searching for an absolute
that he attained from time to time.