“
I am tired of these speeches, I who love the Tour de France.
I can't stand this contempt
, this way of insulting the working classes.
There is an absolutely unbearable class contempt there
.
“
This plea in favor of the Tour heard a little less than two years ago on the airwaves of Franceinfo does not come from the mouth of Christian Prudhomme, the director of the event, but from… Yannick Jadot.
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The MEP for Europe Ecology-The Greens then tried to restore some order in his ranks after yet another projection by an elected official, Jacques Boutault (deputy mayor of Paris Center), denouncing a
“very polluting” event.
,
distributing
useless gadgets
by staging
hyper-doped athletes”.
Common sense is essential.
The Tour thrives on the beauties of France.
We don't want to damage those of our country
Christian Prudhomme, Director of the Tour de France
For more than a decade, the Grande Boucle has suffered the wrath of the Greens pointing to the ecological impact of this gigantic itinerant machine made up of 4,500 people.
Already in 2009, the political party Génération Écologie had spoken out against
“environmental irresponsibility…
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