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Tour de France: "Those who know the bike know that it is not normal"

2020-09-17T16:26:09.292Z


Withdrawn from the pelotons since the start of the season, the former yellow jersey of the Tour Romain Feillu openly questions the performance of


Withdrawn from the pelotons since last year, Romain Feillu (36) organizes courses for cyclists at his home in Corrèze.

During his career, the former yellow jersey of the Tour de France (2008) has never practiced the language of wood.

While the performance of the Jumbo Visma team in the Roglic yellow jersey raises some questions, the sprinter with 21 pro victories did not hesitate to express his doubts publicly with a certain irony.

"When I think that some are offended that a guy of 80 kilos climbs the passes faster than Pantani… The magic jersey, Jumbo, the flying elephants!

It's not new, you just have to believe it… ”, wrote the former sprinter on Twitter.

WHEN I THINK SOME ARE OFFENDED THAT AN 80 KILO GUY CLIMBERS FASTER THAN PANTANI ...



THE MAGIC



JUMBO



THE FLYING ELEPHANTS JERSEY, IT'S NOT NEW !!!



SIMPLY TO BELIEVE



😃 pic.twitter.com/uJwUH76HyW

- Feillu Romain (@FeilluR) September 14, 2020

Words he clarified in an interview with Ouest-France: “Those who know the bike know very well that it is not normal.

A boy like Wout Van Aert, a puncher, a sprinter, is also able to ride over passes for several minutes and blow up all the climbers very far from the finish and keep riding.

There is something wrong.

Even Chris Froome (quadruple Tour winner) was not as extraordinary as Wout Van Aert!

There, we can see that there is something… He is on top of everything, and you know very well when you ride a bike that it is impossible to work on all the specialties and to be physically on top everywhere.

With the hindsight that I have, I know very well that when a team dominates a race at this point, there is something behind… I remember the US Postal, the CSC with Cancellara and O'Grady in the collars.

Me, basically, today, what I see, I would compare him to a guy who miraculously wins the lottery twice in a row.

That's crazy.

But in cycling, there is no coincidence, that's why I think there is eel under the rock… ”

"It bothers me that we say that the French are not at the level"

The former Vacansoleil rider who finished his career at St Michel Auber 93 was also keen to defend French cyclists: “and it bothers me when we say that the French are not at the level, etc.

We, finally from what I know, we respect the rules of the game, the speeches of the managers of French teams are sometimes not those of before.

At one time, it was: "Don't get caught".

Today, it's: “We don't play, period !?

I don't know, but already, just ketones, it's not normal.

Doctors tell us it's not good for the stomach, there are risks.

The French teams do not take any, so that means that everyone is not on the same ethical footing.

"Remembering Slovenia's recent doping past"

Romain Feillu did not hide, either, wondering about Slovenia: "We know that it is a small country of two million inhabitants which did not have a huge track record on the Tour, and which arrives suddenly to place two riders in the first two places of the Tour!

We must also remember the recent doping past of this country.

Borut Bozic, Grega Bole, who was a friend though, but there you go… I don't think they had the same education as us.

Already, among the young people, they had very suspicious performances… Of course, they are good riders, I am not saying that they are null, but here it is… I feel that some managers do not yet have the right attitudes.

And then something else, it may have nothing to do with it, but I would finally like us to know the rest of the Aderläss affair

(Editor's note: the doping scandal in Austria around Dr Mark Schmidt)

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Are current runners involved?

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Source: leparis

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