Doping: Pogacar and Vingegaard question

There are them and then the rest. ” Space goblins“, as the journalist of The Team, Yohann Hautbois, never cease to surprise and crush the competition. In intriguing proportions. Because even if the show has certainly been there since the start of this Tour de France 2023, the stratospheric performances of Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard have raised some doubts among some. With more than four minutes ahead of their first pursuer (Carlos Rodriguez, 3rd at four minutes and forty-three seconds), the two men fly over the race this year. Informed observers or simple cycling lovers, the questions are there.

Former doctor at AG2R and Arkea-Samsic, Jean-Jacques Menuet, for example, recently expressed his questions in an interview with West France : ” I see artists, in front, who don’t interest me. Artists who seem suspicious to me. One can fear, unfortunately, that there are two speeds. Without naming them and without questioning them at any time, David Gaudu’s trainer, David Han, also noted that a bias existed between some and the rest of the competition. ” We fall on bones and we can’t gnaw themhe told The Team. For ten days, we’ve been losing time, and yet the boys are doing the job. »

” Like Pantani »

On the public side, some comments are, on the other hand, thinly veiled accusations against Pogacar and Vingegaard. ” They go faster than motorcycles these two, I say that, I say nothing »for example wrote this Internet user in reaction to an article published by The Team. Another followed suit: ” One day, above all, the trickery will have to stop. The two today were at the same time as… Pantani (1997, absolute record of Joux Plane). Up to 2.5 kms from the finish, and their round of observation… In the end, they lag about 1 minute behind the Italian and are therefore within the times that… Ulrich and Virenque, same year… Without their stagnation, they perhaps did better than those old ‘legends’. »