Even if the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports Jean-Michel Blanquer classified the file on Friday by declaring that the health protocol had been “well developed and respected” by the XV of France, the affair of the cluster within the selection there is still a lot of talk.
Friday on the airwaves of
RMC
, Marc Madiot who knows the subject well to respect for months draconian sanitary instructions with his cycling team Groupama-FDJ on the Tour de France and on other events, estimated that Fabien Galthié, and, more broadly, the XV of France, had committed a fault by not respecting the instructions put in place.
The coach had left Marcoussis to attend a match of his son and the players had offered a little walk in the streets of Rome while the tricolor staff had set up a bubble to protect themselves from the Covid-19.
The France team had recorded sixteen positive cases between February 16 and 25 (twelve players and four members of the management, including Fabien Galthié).
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"You cannot be a coach and at the same time be the first to make mistakes concerning the sanitary bubble"
An incomprehensible attitude for Marc Madiot: “You cannot be a coach and at the same time be the first to make mistakes concerning the health bubble.
Afterwards, there is a gear that comes from the Federation and all the members of the France team.
But I am a little surprised because I am constantly faced with this subject of the bubble.
And when I hear that the coach allows himself to go see his son play, just that, for me, it is not admissible!
It's a mistake !
Me and my colleagues, when we are on the Tour de France, for a month I did not see my son and my wife.
For a month, they didn't even come along a fence to see me. ”
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"When you are in the bubble, you have to be in the bubble and not be next to the bubble!"
The former rider recalled that he and his team were still subject to a very restrictive health protocol and that he respected these rules "from A to Z".
“When you are in the bubble, you have to be in the bubble and not be next to the bubble!
And in rugby, the bubble is easy to do!
In cycling, the Tour of Spain is 700 itinerant people and there have been zero cases of Covid! ”Added Madiot very upset.
His energetic exit on the set of
RMC
does not, however, prevent him from admiring the work of Galthié at the head of the Blues, qualifying the former scrum half of "good coach" and "good coach" while being convinced that "he will do the job."
"On the Tour de France, I haven't seen my son or my wife for a month. When there are rules you have to respect them. When you're in the bubble, you stay there"
Marc's rant Madiot on the Galthié controversy pic.twitter.com/W1pRBdnfiC
- GGsportRMC (@GGsportRMC) March 6, 2021
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