Bernard Thévenet: “Achieving results will be more and more difficult in the future for the French”

Winner of the Tour de France in 1975 and 1977, Bernard Thévenet (74) remains an enlightened observer of the Grande Boucle, an event he follows in full on site as an ambassador for Amaury Sport Organisation.

met him on Friday.

To discover

• The route of the Tour de France 2022

• The general classification of the Tour de France

LE FIGARO.

- Have we witnessed a legendary Tour de France?

Bernard THEVENET

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- This is my 50th Tour and I have witnessed one of the most exciting, contested and spectacular.

Of course, there is this duel between Vingegaard and Pogacar, but I loved the state of mind developed.

In recent years, we had rather seen teams transformed into a steamroller and it jumped from the back while, for three weeks, we had the right to tussles between the best, and in front.

We thought Tadej Pogacar had left to dominate the Tour for years, but it was a new phenomenon, Jonas Vingegaard who dethroned him…

There is not one but two phenomena.

Fortunately, because without one of them, the race would have been over very quickly.

Without wanting to be...

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