“The fantastic three … The spectacle of today was magnificent”
And on this symbolic day, Cyclism’Actu could not let the opportunity come to return with the Vendée leader on these first days of racing, marked on the side of his team by a 4th place ofAnthony Turgis in Lille, but also not the terrible fall (among others) ofEmilia Jeaniere In the 3rd stage sprint on Monday. A multiplication of this type of incident that makes a lot of talk … and Jean-René Bernaudeau Precisely submitted some ideas to our microphone to try to find a solution to this problem.
Hello Jean-René, it's your day, but we don't care, right?
No, no, that's not it, it's that it's the same thing every year, so we're going to talk about sport rather than my birthday that does not interest anyone.
You had to know how to cycle on this stage, because it was technical.
It's Punchy, it's a beautiful final that was exploited by the best, we knew that this final was going to be like that. The Tour de France gives us beautiful menus, and it is up to us to adapt.
What do you think of these three fantastic on arrival? Are they above others?
There are two, plus one who will be in another register. But it is true that today, we have the biggest race in the world with the best runners in the world and a total commitment, so today's spectacle is magnificent. We expected it, they did it, and I don't see Pogacar leaving a victory like that, so here it is, it's sport.
How do we analyze the start of this tour for your team? Correct, with the beautiful fourth place of Anthony Turgis in Lille? How is Emilien too?
This is especially the problem yesterday, since the team is very compact, it was well prepared. I want to pay a tribute to Maxime Robin, the manager of the Performance pole who brought them with a peak in shape. And especially to a compact group at Totalenergies, we have brought runners who are a little complementary to target steps when the vice will loosen. So today, if there were not enough falls yesterday (Monday), there were a lot of falls, perhaps too many falls. We had Anthony Turgis and Emilien Jeannière In the sprint for the best 10, it would have been a beautiful start to the turn. So we will wait to know what the doctor of Emilien say. But the heat wave is not there, the healing will be done, so let's see the right side. I told him that it is very hard what he lives, but what is hard is not to go around France, so he must think of those who would like to be in his place.
You who know the bicycle by heart, these falls, everyone is talking about it, but what is the problem in fact?
Already, you are not allowed to drive with a phone, and we have the right to speak to the runner in the headset … So I will already delete the headset right away, because today, we fall in a straight line, we must always go up … Besides there are testimonies that we hear, when there are changes of direction, I can assure you that everyone says the same thing. So let the runners make, cultivate intelligence, cultivate groups, develop the capitalatan in the teams, so that there is the generational conflict, since a young runner of 21, 22, knows very well that by making the interior, by falling, he can go and get a contract for a million. But this same runner, 4 years later, can be a dad, and will be reasonable, so there is all that, this generational conflict.
And then cleanliness, there are runners who don't care. We live in there with colossal issues, so I think it is up to managers to put a little bit of order, and I would campaign to develop a captain's system, who can speak to another captain to say: “Here, your youngster, it's always the same, it's always dangerous, it's already quite dangerous, what can we do?”. I would cultivate the company, the leader, the captain, the teammates, and then the young crazy dogs, who must give guarantees before taking these foolish risks.
It's interesting, because many say that it is because of the material that has evolved, speed, but you, isn't that at all that?
Absolutely not. You can imagine that you cannot discuss the material. Do you imagine a sports cyclo that will have a more efficient bike than a professional runner? But you dream! No, the problem is not there. The problem, we can talk about the gear, yes indeed. Bikes are effective, and sometimes in the aspiration, we arrive at crazy speeds, which can be made by slightly large brackets. Ok, let's reduce the brackets, that's obvious for the big descents …
So the idea of the UCI for a limitation of the brackets, which they will test at the end of the year, is not a bad idea?
I don't know, it's common sense, but we have to bring together experts. We are the actors, the Tour de France is the most beautiful play that we can offer us, and then there is a government that directs it all, it is up to him to find solutions. But it is not with rustine that it will work. We talk about it seriously, but I assure you that in the bike, there is the plan A, for the bosses that we are, the plan B … but we must also develop the moment T, and the moment T is the intelligence of the group, it is to develop the collective. Thomas Voeckler, we stole victories with the atrium, I am against the headset, because it is really the strength of the groups that roll the watt, when we would like to develop intelligence. And when you have intelligent runners, you don't do the inside stupidly when turns.
