This will end badly, but when?
A french journal article
Excerpts:
‘It's all going to end badly, but when?’ says a team manager whose identity is best kept under wraps. Because the "milieu" is uncompromising and doesn't like people spitting in the soup. The slightest critical remark can have consequences. But in the intimacy of the bus, tongues are loosened. ‘If he'd wanted to beat Bjarne Riis's record in Hautacam, he'd have taken it, but he sat up in the last two kilometres,’ adds this team manager who witnessed the arrival of EPO in the peloton in the early 1990s. "Today, the authorities are embarrassed, they don't know what to do." Cheaters have always been one step ahead. And the fight against doping seems outdated, behind the times or resigned.
What bothers me are the attacks at the foot of the climbs, we haven't seen that since my time," says Sandy Casar, winner of three stages in the Tour de France in the late 2000s. In other words, when Lance Armstrong was flying. Pogacar was sure of himself. In Hautacam, he wasn't worried about being thwarted when he set off from so far away. And he followed that up in the Peyragudes time trial and then controlled Superbagnères. Vingegaard is not without merit, but then again...".