The use of carbon monoxide inhalation within the professional peloton is increasingly debated. While Jonas Vingegaard (Visma| Lease a Bike), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) or even training Israel-Premier Tech take carbon monoxide, this practice, bordering on doping and dangerous, has not been banned by theOR (World Anti-Doping Agency) orUCI. The leader of Groupama-FDJ, Marc Madiotwas the guest on the show Big Mouths of Sport on RMC and pledged that we would never use this new device. However, he fears that more and more training will use it.
Video – Marc Madiot in interview with Cyclism'Actu
“In my team, no one will use this equipment”
“Today, we report 3 teams who use or have used this equipment and I put a note that of three teams, we will soon move on to 7 then to 10, then to 15 then 85% of the peloton will use it “he explains, but he doesn't want to use it. “I have no intention of using it at all, what we have to do, and this is the message that I conveyed to the president of the UCI, is that the situation is simple, we are in a world where 25 teams make up 100% of the big world calendar. The bosses must commit in writing not to use this method, whether it is good or bad, we must. undertakes not to purchase this equipment and not to use it”he declares.
“I say it, in front of the listeners, in my team, no one will use this equipment. I am committed to it. Even if the 19 other teams do it and I invite my team colleagues to have the same attitude If the 25 team bosses say 'we don't use this method', we won't use it Obviously if there was no idea of increasing performance, we wouldn't be in it. this attitude It is clear that we must say that we are not trying to know how much contribution this will give to the runners so it's stop, it's no, everyone must commit to each other. others”the conclusion Marc Madiot.
Jérôme Pineau: “They don’t take beer, but cortisone, ketones and carbon monoxide”
Jerome Pineaua former runner, was also present on the set and let loose. “Cortisone, tramadol, ketones… We're going to come back to the same team bosses who tell you, 'my runners are careful and don't drink beer', but yours take ketones, probably cortisone , and carbon monoxide. These people, they will turn their backs on you as soon as you want to make a decision because they are there for profit and their personal glory. But what worries me is the runners, because. what to do to be dominated come to mind certain words of my friends when I was 20, 'we're not going to go there with our d*** and our knife', and what's going to happen is that there will have deviations”he explained.
“Every Marc that he is knows it. He will do everything well but if he has two or three kids who have a bit of teeth that scratch the floor, when they were juniors, they volleyed and now on the Tour, they can no longer keep up, they will mess around, they will test the thing on their own, and there will be deviations. Cycling and the authorities will quickly have to get back in line with gasoline. even our sport: physical effort. And not profit. I hope that our president, who is French, understands that this role is not to make money and a network to go higher, but to settle. these problems”added Pineau.
