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
Progress
, declared that the Tour de France was "chauvinist and polluting".
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The" Machist and polluting "Tour for the mayor of Lyon: Bernard Hinault's response
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 . "
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