"
The heroes of today...
" launched Thibaut Pinot on Twitter, in response to a tweet published by Laurent Vergne, head of information for Eurosport.
The Groupama-FDJ cyclist has been a fervent defender of clean sport, without cheating and without doping, for many years.
And on Sunday evening, he wielded irony around the many infiltrations used by Rafael Nadal to " put to
sleep
" his foot which makes him suffer.
Suffering from an incurable disease, Nadal would probably not have been able to play at Roland-Garros without these injections.
A practice which is not considered doping by the rules of world tennis but which the Spanish champion does not wish to repeat for Wimbledon.
“
Wimbledon
(June 27-July 10)
is a priority, has always been a priority.
If I'm able to play with just anti-inflammatories, I'll play.
But playing with anesthetic injections, no.
I don't want to put myself in this situation again
,” he said.
Effects for three weeks
Thibaut Pinot also resorted to treatment to treat an injury (on the back), pushing him to resort to injections (outside the competition period).
“
From an ethical point of view, I have always been against it,
admitted the leader of the Groupama-FDJ formation last year
.
When you do an infiltration or use cortisone, there are effects for at least three weeks... Some people do it just before the races.
You're out of competition, but the effect is there.
I am completely the opposite of all that, but we are still in a two-speed cycle I think.
(...) They banned tramadol
(in 2019)
, but it would have been nice if they did the same with corticosteroids.
nothing to do on a bike.
He is not fit to compete.
I don't understand how guys cycle under cortisone.
There's always something new coming up.
I'm fed up, because when I see the effect that the infiltration has had on my back, I tell myself that there are several races that I would have finished.
»
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