A winner of the Tour, Jonas Vingegaard, impressive in regularity and who offers himself two stages.
An ubiquitous green jersey, Wout van Aert, three stages in the bag.
The Jumbo-Visma padlocked this Grande Boucle with an exceptional collective performance which, due to the liabilities of cycling, quickly revived suspicions of doping around the Dutch team.
Charges that Christophe Laporte regrets, the only Frenchman on this team and the only tricolor to have raised his arms during these three weeks.
“I know that some people don't believe in our performance, slips the 29-year-old runner in an interview with L'Equipe on Tuesday.
In recent days, there has been a lot of criticism, it's always the same, the rider who wins the Tour, no one ever believes it.
Cycling is struggling to wash its image, it's unfortunate.
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Already on Saturday, after van Aert's victory in the time trial in Rocamadour, the Jumbo-Visma had been arrested on these suspicions of doping.
The Belgian did not appreciate this “shitty question”.
“As soon as we win, we are asked.
What does it mean ?
We are good, so we have to defend ourselves?
We worked very hard to get there, the bike has changed, he was annoyed at a press conference.
It's not fun to answer these kinds of questions.
We do all the checks, at any time of the year, they can come and test us at home.
Look at the team, how we have progressed.
We don't come from nowhere.
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“We are clean”
“We are clean, had replied, more calmly, its Danish leader Jonas Vingegaard.
I can guarantee it, tell you all.
Nobody does anything illegal.
If we were so good it's because we did a great preparation.
We do courses at altitude and we go very far during these courses.
We do our best in terms of equipment, food… That's why you have to trust us.
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After seven years with the French formation Cofidis, Laporte joined the Jumbo-Visma this season, with whom he won the first stage of Paris-Nice and this 19th stage on the Grande Boucle.
“I hear what people are saying about me:
Laporte, he was not advancing and now he is winning the Tour.
Even those who follow cycling do not try to understand, to realize that a team with such a budget, with riders of this level and an organization around which the level of requirement is 100%, that explains a lot things.
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The Jumbo-Visma is not the first team to have been targeted by doping suspicions.
Over the past two years, the UAE Emirates team of double winner Tadej Pogacar has also been the subject of many controversies on the subject, in particular because of a management largely involved in cases of this kind in the past.