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"Do not break what brings us together": the strong speech of the boss of the Tour de France against the green mayors

2020-09-18T07:08:08.862Z


LE SCAN SPORT - Christian Prudhomme gave a strong and poignant speech which echoes the recent criticisms of green mayors towards the biggest cycling race in the world.


Christian Prudhomme continues to step up to defend the Tour de France.

And the boss of the biggest cycling event in the world was heard again Wednesday at the start of the 17th stage during a speech in Grenoble ... city of the mayor ecologist Eric Piolle.

Words that echo the attacks and criticisms of some elected Europe EELV in recent days such as the mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet who described the Tour as "macho and polluting" according to the town hall of Rennes ("dated sports format", according to Valérie Faucheux , assistant).

Annoyed and eager to be heard, Christian Prudhomme wanted, once again, to reveal the depths of his thoughts, with a strong and touching speech.

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"Tapping on what unites us is not a mistake, it's a mistake"

"Maybe we are not moving fast enough in some areas, but we are working," he says.

Do you know that at Mont Aigoual (in the Gard, arrival of the 6th stage on September 3), for example, we installed anti-straying nets for people?

Everything is done in collaboration, we talk to people.

Only discussion without speaking in the media first can help.

It's just common sense.

The Tour de France is an event which unites, which brings people together.

Don't break what brings people together.

There are so many communitarianisms, people who separate.

The Tour is so much more than the greatest cycling race in the world.

The Tour is our country. ”

Faced with speechless interlocutors, Christian Prudhomme continued his speech, raising the tone, with his voice sometimes touched by emotion.

“I was talking about the Marseillaise, the Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet… We will be Saturday in Haute-Saône, at the Planche des Belles Filles: 35% of unemployed at the bottom of the valleys, people who bowed their heads and lifted them up. .

Thanks to the Tour, they are raising their heads.

Because they see their village, Plancher-les-Mines in Haute-Saône, which is shown around the world.

And they are proud.

I am sure that in this magnificent department of Isère, I am sure that in Grenoble, in the metropolis, in the city, people are proud.

And they are even more so in our rural areas.

But what brings us together, what unites us, is just common sense.

Tapping on what unites us is not a mistake, it's a mistake. "

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Source: lefigaro

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