Marc Madiot's clear opinion on the state of Cycling

The Maxim Van Gils case shakes up the Cycling peloton. Indeed, the Belgian rider canceled his contract with the Lotto-Dstny team after asking to quadruple his salary. A case which illustrates the growing importance of agents in the cycling world. A drift denounced by Marc Madiot, the sporting director of Groupama-FDJ among our colleagues at RTBF: “What is happening with Maxim Van Gils does not bode well for the future”.

“I have nothing against the arrival of major sponsors, but…”

“I have nothing against the arrival of major sponsors like Red Bull, UAE or Bahrain, but we still have to put a minimum of regulation into all that because the day these big behemoths leave, what will be left ? “, he explains.

Before adding: “Losing riders is the life of a team. It's a bit fashionable at the moment in a lot of training. We make do with it… We would obviously like to keep our riders, but that is not possible. But in general, I find that we are becoming more and more like football, without having the compensations of football. I don't find it very healthy, neither for the team, nor for the rider. No, it’s not good, not good.”