At the other end of the line, the stamp of his voice has not changed. His enthusiasm and humor, either. Daniel MANGEAS (76) returns from afar. A few days before the start of the 2025 season, the emblematic French speaker was the victim of a stroke at his home in Saint-Martin-de-Landelles (Manche), where he had led his 50th French championship in June last.
More than three months later, the “Voix du Tour de France” for 41 years (from 1974 to 2014) slowly recovered at the Le Normandy rehabilitation center in Granville where “Jean-Paul Belmondo also stayed,” he slips smiling. Far from the races, far from his “second family”, as he likes to emphasize, Daniel MANGEAS has regained morale even if he is still very tired. “I have no consequences, I have not lost my speech, but I feel very very tired,” confirms the one who, as every year, had to start his animation season on the La Grand Prix La Marseillaise before chaining with the Bessèges star and almost all the races of the French calendar.
“I had to receive between 4,000 and 5,000 messages”
“Unfortunately, after the French cyclo-cross championships in Pontchâteau, Badaboum … Nothing, I fell on it. I would have left, I would not have realized it. I felt like I was in a background race and suddenly… ”, says Daniel Mangeraas whose announcement of his stroke has aroused a lot of reactions. “Personally, I had to receive between 4,000 and 5,000 messages, I did not have time to answer everyone. It’s madness! “, He adds, touched by all these attentions.
“All this boosts me. It is not easy every day but I know that I am not alone in these moments. I started to follow the cycling season again, I have the feeling of reliving … Yes, it is getting better and better even if I do not consider recovery. My priority is health, “says the one who will therefore miss the big weekend to come to come with the sequence Boucles de l’Alne, Tour du Finistère, Grand Prix du Morbihan, Tro Bro Leon, events he has animated for decades with the verve that we know. “Châteaulin, I have come there since 1977. I will not be present on Breton races this year but I intend to come back in one way or another. Anyway, I don’t see myself far from this bike environment that I love. In the meantime, give hello to my Breton friends. Tell them I think of them ”. The reciprocal is true.
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