Clément Pédron, media365: published on Wednesday July 23, 2025 at 9:26 am
The international cycling union published a statement on Tuesday evening to share its amazement concerning the presence, in the village departure in Auch, of Johan Bruyneel, the former manager of Lance Armstrong yet prohibited for life on the Tour de France.
What was Johan Bruyneel, the former Lance manager Armstrong, did at the village departure from the Tour de France on July 17 in Auch, before the 12th stage of the Grande Boucle to Hautacam? This is the question that everyone is asking, in particular the UCI, the international cycling union. The body that directs world cycling has very little tasted the presence of the former manager of the US Postal and Discovery Channel. In the early evening Tuesday, the organization published a press release to claim explanations in ASO, the organizer of the Tour de France. During this one, it is recalled that the Belgian is “prohibited for life of exercise any activity linked to cycling”. If her presence in Auch is “in connection with his participation in Vive le Vélo, a program of Belgian public television of Dutch language VRT1”, she also raised many questions.
Suspended for life in October 2018
In October 2018, Johan Bruyneel was suspended for life by the Arbitral Tribunal of Sport (TAS) for violation of anti -doping rules in particular with the seven Tours de France won – finally canceled – by Lance Armstrong between 1999 and 2005. “If it is free to attend a cycling event recorded on the UCI international calendar such as the Tour de France, like any other spectator, he can not participate in the test, Some function or in any quality whatsoever, nor access areas not accessible to the public, “said the UCI in its press release. As a result, his presence revealed by Bruyneel himself on social networks, was therefore not authorized to “zones of the Tour de France requiring accreditation, recalls the UCI. Being suspended for life, Mr. Bruyneel was therefore not allowed to be present in the departure village, nor in the space of the teams of the Tour de France. At the end of the press release, the worldwide proceedings revealed that it got closer to ASO to “clarify if Mr. Bruyneel had been granted official accreditation, to understand how it could happen and to ensure that no other accreditation will no longer be issued to her. For the time being, the organizer of the Grande Boucle has made no comments.