Tour de France: Stéphane Heulot wanted to "vomit" in front of the performances of Pogacar

It is one more paving stone in the Tadej Pogacar pond.

If the Tour de France 2020, which arrived in Paris this Sunday evening, resisted the Covid-19, suspicion is still present after the extraordinary performances of the young Slovenian rider (who celebrates his 22 years this Monday), sacred during his first participation in the Grande Boucle.

Wearing the yellow jersey in 1996, the French Stéphane Heulot confided that he felt uncomfortable in front of the coronation of Pogacar, resident of the UAE team, managed by the sulphurous Mauro Gianetti, whom Heulot knows well for having been his teammate at the Française des Jeux in 1998.

At that time, the Swiss had remained in a coma for three days after consuming PFC (a substance used experimentally in hospitals, close to EPO).

He then became manager of the Saunier-Duval formation, excluded from the Tour in 2008 after the positive control of the Italian Riccardo Ricco.

“Honestly, I haven't been watching the Tour since Sunday (September 13) and the climb of the Grand-Colombier (victory for Tadej Pogacar), he confides in Ouest-France.

I can't do it anymore, in fact… There are things that are quite easy to assess, in terms of performance, anyway.

I find it hard to understand how a 75 kg runner can climb a pass at breakneck speed and maintain his climb thereafter.

In terms of speed of climb, we saw things that were not possible, either, for some ... "

"We are perhaps on chemical doping, but also electrical ..."

Like Romain Feillu, another former French yellow jersey who said this week that "those who know cycling know that it is not normal", Heulot confides to have "serious questions".

“I think we have taken it a step further,” says the Breton.

Because we are perhaps on chemical doping, but also electrical ... "" You see the emoticon with the desire to vomit, and well I feel that, it disgusts me ... "he continues by targeting, according to him, the real evil that still plagues this sport.

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“That people like that (Gianetti), or like others, are still in cycling today is unthinkable, he chokes.

It is a real fault.

In my opinion, we will never be able to change the system if we do not change the men!

Doping will be there as long as people are steadfast.

It's as if tomorrow, Al Capone was Minister of Justice ... How to get out of all this when 80% of Jumbo-Visma's staff comes from Rabobank and the time Michael Rasmussen

?

No, that's not possible… Fortunately, guys have changed, lots of guys have changed, but unfortunately there are still cheaters, and we have to be aware of it.

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