Energetic figure from cycling world in France (5)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

this is an anagram of the French word for world, i.e. MONDE. Thus an indirect anagram, though clearly marked. Just as well I don’t have any tablets to hand, else I might be chucking them against the wall. Whatever next? A quotation from Shakespeare as a cloze test clue?