2023-05-20 10:49:02
This Friday, Einer Rubio (Movistar) won the 13th stage of the Tour of Italy cycling, run only over 74.6 km between Le Chable and the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana. Initially planned for 199 km between Borgofranco d’Ivrea and Crans-Montana, the route of the 13th stage had been modified by the organizers due to the weather, shortly following the fictitious start in the rain in Borgofranco d’Ivre. And this modification made a lot of noise in the peloton.
Thus, the manager of Groupama-FDJ, Marc Madiot, did not appreciate this modification. Invited in the program “Les Grandes Gueules du Sport”, the manager did not mince his words. : “With the Giro, we are making a new mistake. Cycling is a sport where you go to the end of what you are. We are destroying our sport by repeating actions like those of Friday. I’m going to take a joke from Daniel Mangeas who said: ‘We are not at Roland-Garros, we are not putting up the tarpaulin.’ Cycling is putting the tarp down, we are denying what we were. »
He then adds: “It’s over, it won’t happen once more. I’m sorry, but many runners will never be able to say that, they are losing track of what the history of our sport is, what we heard regarding the legends of Eddy Merckx, pieces of bravery by Luis Ocaña…”
The manager no longer recognizes his sport: “I find it difficult to find the same things over the past few years. There are still runners who hurt themselves, who go beyond their own physical limits, but we are losing the historical side of our sport. Cycling is something you do that others can’t do. »
Before concluding: “On the Giro, the track was not too difficult! We have to stop with that. You don’t have to be a cyclist. We have the right to give up. In 1980, when Hinault won Liège, there were 20 runners at the finish. We have the right to succumb to fatigue, to cold. But we no longer go within the limits that make our sport so great. We have a fantastic sport, which uses something that we cannot find elsewhere and we are losing it. People want to grab something that you can’t see anywhere else. If we remove that, we become a sanitized sport and we put the tarp. »
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