“We don't really rebuild ourselves”
Since 2022, Pineau had no longer set foot on a cycling race, except on the Pays de la Loire Tour. “Obviously there are many traces of all this, enmities, and above all I do not forget the media relentlessness. These are things that I will never forget”said the 45 -year -old Loire to our colleagues Ouest-France. But today, he says, he's better. Thanks to those around him, his family, and his bicycle store. “We are three with my brother Sébastien and Franck Gérard, and we are happy. The store works very well.”
“We don't really rebuild ourselves. We are moving forward. We have no choice but to move forward. But it's difficult, obviously”he continues. “If I could do a 'reset' on these years, I would do it. Because it was hard for me, but also for my loved ones. It is especially the most difficult. And it is still very sensitive. Because at the same time as this story, I also experienced a very toxic relationship. So the double pain. But we advance, so, because we have no choice. Because we have a family, because you are in it. Beautiful, too.
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“I left the middle completely …”
“And we rebuild ourselves with the challenges, the challenges. We learn about ourselves. You know, I touched the bottom. The bottom, the bottom. With everything that goes with it, the depression, and all these drifts. But I never wanted to go further than that because life is too beautiful. I had black ideas, obviously, but I have my loved ones. Too easy to leave the ship “explain Pineau. “There, it's been a little better for a little and a half years, two years. Since we have done something else. And it is better also thanks to certain friends. I think of Jean-Christophe Drouet, Christophe Cessieux, of RMC, who reached my hand, professionally speaking, who did not judge me. Who gave me the opportunity to explain myself. And then behind, we are selling … heads..”
A complicated situation for the one who explains with his own words “I made a mistake, and I became a pariah of cycling”. A deserved treatment or not according to the points of view, but we will therefore see Pineau On the roads of Tour de France in this month of July.
