Amateur Cycling in Brittany is going through difficult days at the end of the 2024 season… Indeed, no less than two Breton teams are forced, for financial reasons, to close their doors, and not any since it is about Cre’Actuel-Marie Morin-U 22 et Morbihan Adris Gwendal Oliveuxwho both competed in DN1, the highest division of amateur cycling. The disappearance of these two teams, Yvon Caër spoke about it in an interview with the newspaper The Telegramhe who had experienced the same thing eight years ago with the training Brest Iroise Cycling 2000of which he was the general manager.
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“The bicycle has lost many of its values”
“Il We simply have to open our eyes to social reality and economic reality.”begins by explaining the current sports director of the Groupama-FDJwhich points out the excesses of high-level amateur cycling to explain the crisis in which it finds itself. “The amateur environment has become professionalized. For whom, why, I don’t know. What’s the point, anyway? […] In a few years, everything deteriorated. We have witnessed a totally inappropriate inflation of budgets.”
The team’s former sporting director Arkéa-B&B Hotels then makes a cold and scathing observation on the state of cycling in France. “It’s not amateur cycling that’s going into the wall, it’s cycling that’s going into the wall! The high amateur level is just going in the direction of the base of the bike, which is going very, very badly […] The bicycle has lost many of its values. The situation is extremely serious, I have reason to be alarmist”confides the one who points out the speed at which young runners are, these days, catapulted to the professional level, but also the weariness of the organizers and the expensive side of the sport. “Cycling is becoming a sport for the rich”he said.
Cyrille Guimard: “As I have been saying for several years…”
A sentence greeted by Cyrille Guimardcolumnist of Cyclism’Actu and who ardently hopes that a new president of the French Cycling Federation (FFC) will be appointed on December 14 so that new momentum can be given. “Thank you Yvon for having the courage to say it, like Mr Blévin in his open letter (Fabrice Blévinpresident of Team Adris-La Crêpe de Brocéliande-BLCa team from DN3, recently wrote an open letter to Michel Callotthe president of the FFCto alert him to the situation, Editor’s note)as petitions are starting to emerge and as I have been saying for several years”explain the Druidbefore talking more specifically about this hunt for N1, N2 or N3 labels which was practiced in the past and which is decried by Yvon Caër in the newspaper article The Telegram.
“This is what we would like Michel Callot to talk to us about”
“At the executive office of the FFC, already under the presidency of Lappartient, it was said that there was a form of subsidy fraud. In fact, the DN2 like the DN3, and worse the DN 3 Espoirs, could not have that a REGIONAL designation Mr. Trehin, responsible for a DN3, told me: “Fed up with the DN designation, the difference in subsidy does not even cover the cost of travel to run in the four corners of France. . And only our women know where we have gone. Our partners have no visibility.” This is what we would like Michel Callot to talk to us about and not about his ambition to be president of the Organizing Committee of the World Super Championships at home.”concludes Cyrille Guimard referring to the event which will be organized in 2027 in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and more precisely in Haute-Savoie.
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