Consultant for France Télévisions during the Tour de France, Thomas Voeckler, also coach of the French cycling team, regretted the difference in “information processing” between the world of cycling and that of other sports.
His outspokenness has still spoken. Retired from cycling for eight years, Thomas Voeckler is now taking place on the Moto de France Télévisions to follow the Tour de France. In a recent interview with Le Figaro, the former double world champion (2004 and 2010) has confided at length, notably evoking the domination of Tadej Pogacar, the suspicions that hover around Slovenian’s performance, but especially the image of cycling in relation to doping.
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“When you receive tennis infiltration, you are glorified, and you pass for a living God – and I love Rafael Nadal. If in the bicycle, you must have an infiltration, you have fifteen days of stopping, you cannot take part in a race. It’s as simple as that” compared the 46 year old man. Before taking a new example, that of Paul Pogba, sentenced in February 2024 to four years of suspension after a positive testosterone control. The sanction finally reduced to eighteen months by the Sports Arbitral Tribunal, the 2018 world champion was authorized to replay from March 2025 and has been committed in recent weeks with AS Monaco.
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“Paul Pogba, whom I also love, no doubt that it is not intentional what happened to him, but if it is Romain Bardet or Thibaut Pinot who have had like that, we say:” They took us for fools for years. “The processing of information is not the same” judge the coach of the French cycling team. Before qualifying: “Afterwards, it comes from the history of cycling, which also pays for the excesses of the past. It is behind us. We must be careful not to return to these drifts and always continue the fight.”
