While Tadej Pogacar is the object of great distrust due to his overwhelming domination, Antoine Dupont is singled out by a famous cycling consultant.
Tadej Pogacar ended the year as he started it on the Strade Bianche: with an undisputed victory. For his last race of the season, the Slovenian won the Tour of Lombardy after another incredible solo ride. Like two weeks ago at the Worlds or like last week at the Tour of Emilia. Enough to earn the leader of the UAE-Emirates Team a new wave of suspicion against a backdrop of doping.
But Tadej Pogacar is not the only athlete to have left his mark on Saturday. It was the same for Antoine Dupont, author of three essays in just twelve minutes for his big comeback, almost three months after the coronation of the Blues of the 7th in Paris. Enough this time to trigger a race for superlatives. A difference in treatment which was not to the taste of Cyrile Guimard, former runner and sports director, and consultant on RMC or the Chaîne L’Equipe until a few weeks ago.
“Doping!!! What is the difference between Dupont and Pogacar? »
“Doping!!! What is the difference between Dupont and Pogacar? Pocacar is necessarily doped…. Dupont is an idol. Open the real files of doping in Rugby »he wrote on Twitter, nevertheless specifying in a second message: “I’m not saying that Dupont entered into the protocols. » A message which aroused very strong reactions, Cyrile Guimard’s followers not failing to recall the sulphurous past of cycling, even his own, as well as the differences in profile between Pogacar and Dupont.
However, the former French champion was not the only one to dare this comparison and regret the difference in treatment suffered by the Slovenian, particularly in France.
