Prudhomme on the criticisms of green mayors: "The environmental approach of the Tour exists"

Special correspondent on the Tour de France

Guest from Europe 1 this Friday before the start of the 13th stage of the Tour de France Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, on the sidelines of the event since Tuesday due to a positive test for Covid-19 reacted to the words of Grégory Doucet, the new mayor of Lyon (EELV) who, in an interview with

, declared that the Tour de France was "chauvinist and polluting".

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In charge of the Tour since 2007, the director of the Grande Boucle, aware of the stakes, recalls: “We have, for the first time, this year hybrid vehicles on the Tour.

All the red vehicles for organizing the Tour de France, for sporting power, are hybrid vehicles.

We have, for the first time this year in the caravan, electric vehicles that make the entire Tour de France.

Last year, there were three electric vehicles that were only part of the Tour.

And we will have LPG truck tests by the end of the Tour de France.

So this environmental approach, it certainly exists. ”

And to add on Europe 1, new stone of a vast device: “There are this year on the Tour de France 102 zones called 'Natura 2000' for which there are studies of incidence, with the specialized firm Biotope . "

The day after a very hilly stage between Châtel-Guyon and Puy Mary, this Friday, the Tour will arrive this Saturday in ... Lyon, the end of the 14th stage.

Major sponsor of the Tour de France, Michel-Édouard Leclerc assured, before the start of the Grande Boucle: “The expressions, the view of the French, the comments on the Tour are necessarily in tune with the subjects we are talking about in the country.

The organization must respond to the place of ecology, non-discrimination, health measures, there are no obstacles neither cultural nor intellectual, there is only good will, you just have to do it. "

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Laurent Wauquiez passing through the Tour

Laurent Wauquiez (LR), president of the Auvergne, Rhône-Alpes region said this Friday at the start of the 13th stage of the Tour assured: “This Tour is not easy to wear but the Tour is doing well.

We wing the Tour, we are proud of the Tour.

We like that the Tour is popular, open to everyone and brings people together.

The reviews are made by people who do not know the Tour.

You have to understand the efforts made to involve everyone.

ASO is working on the environmental level, maybe do more, go further but has started to work.

The Tour is an opportunity for our territories, our departments.

You're home.

We are proud of you ... "

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