Former sports director Lance Armstrong lashes out: “Big bullshit” | Cycling

sport">“Greg LeMond always says, I’m the only clean winner. Big bullshit! He always drove for French teams, they were “les rois de la cortisone” (kings of the cortisons, ed), “he says.

sport">Bruyneel’s reasoning is as follows: “You cannot beat world top athletes who have used doping without taking something yourself. But: LeMond was the best of his generation, just like Hinault, Anquetil, Merckx and Indurain. And so also Lance! ”He calls with some irony.

sport">The team leader, suspended for life, calls almost everything French in the interview hypocritical. “When I hear some ex-colleagues busy, I think: do what you want, but be quiet about doping. Take team managers Marc Madiot, Vincent Lavenu and Jean-René Bernaudeau – the éminences grises (the brains, ed.) Of French cycling. They continue to judge me on my past, but what they have been up to is forgiven, so to speak, ”says Bruyneel.

sport">The Belgian keeps repeating that “Lance and he are apparently the big culprits of everything that went wrong in cycling”. “It bothers me that Tour boss Christian Prudhomme and UCI president David Lappartient Bjarne Riis receive with open arms:” He deserves a second chance, the facts date from long ago. ” Anyway, he gets a second chance, because he will certainly not make the same mistakes. Only Bjarne’s situation is the same as mine. If they want your head, you don’t stand a chance, ”says the 55-year-old ex-professor.

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