04/11/2021 15:14
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/11/2021 3:14 PM
Frenchman
Jean-Pierre Verdi
, former head of his country's Anti-Doping Agency, reopened the wound in the case of Lance Armstrong, one of the blackest chapters in the history of world sport, by accusing the former cyclist of "technological doping" who lost the seven titles he had won in the Tour de France after admitting that he had doped throughout his career.
"Lance Armstrong is the biggest scam. With complicity at all levels. He received special treatment. Many told me that I should not address the legends, that I was going to find myself alone. But if the legends are based on something ... I also believe that he had a motor in his bicycle, "said Verdi in dialogue with the newspaper
Le Parisien
, expanding on a complaint that he had included in his book
" Doping: my war against cheaters. "
His words aroused the curiosity of journalist and writer
Antoine Vayer
, who decided to thoroughly investigate this accusation.
After analyzing several videos of Armstrong during different competitions, he identified a movement that the American used to do repeatedly: when he touched the back of his seat, he immediately increased his speed.
And he posed the question that opened a new controversy in the tournament to the former multiple champion: "Is it the use of a motor that explains his 7.4 watts / kg for 9 minutes and 33 seconds per pedal stroke?"
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