Tadej Pogacar’s incredible show of strength at the Giro leaves many followers wary. Former runner, Philippe Saudé expressed his disgust.
Tadej Pogacar’s recital during the three-week Tour of Italy has not stopped getting people talking. His domination was, however, expected. By pushing back his first runner-up to almost ten minutes in the general classification and winning no less than six stages, the Slovenian nevertheless aroused suspicion a little more.
Philippe Saudé, former racer at Renault alongside Laurent Fignon, did not hesitate to make serious accusations against the leader of the UAE-Emirates Team, expressing his disgust at the microphone of RMC. “I saw them in the passes I climbed. But it’s amazing what Pogacar did, he said. He’s not tired, he goes upstairs laughing. We will soon have to put bales of straw on the climbs. »
“It’s not the same products they use”
And the former rider openly talks about doping. “Doping has existed since the dawn of time. But these are not the same products they use now, he added. And what will happen in the years to come is scary. »
Picard is not the first to confide his doubts regarding Tadej Pogacar. On the front line to denounce doping, Antoine Vayer, former coach at Festina, also pointed out the inhumane performances of the Giro winner.
“ MUTANT »wrote the former Festina coach after his sixth stage victory marked by a recital on Monte Grappa, swallowed with an average power of 480 standard watts according to his calculations. “It’s inhumane,” he continued. The other best runners in the world are 10-15% lower in watts and no longer trying to keep up. If we are not complicit or intellectually dishonest and if we are lucid we grasp the extent of the underlying imposture that we know too well in this sport and some of its actors who kill the virtuous who are numerous but are silent because of the omerta and the camora of the cycling world, especially in Italy.»
