Jérôme Pineau acusa al Jumbo de dopaje mecánico.
“Mechanical. The acceleration from Sepp Kuss on the Tourmalet, 10km/h faster than the group, with Evenepoel absent but with top riders like Ayuso and Uijdtebroecks, no slouches on the bike, and Kuss comes along 10km/h faster. There’s a spectator who steps out, he brakes and gets going again 10km/h faster… on the Tourmalet. How do you explain that? How can someone explain that to me?” Pineau posed.
“On the Col de Spandelles, I saw Sepp Kuss open 10 seconds without pedalling. I don’t know how it happens. I’m asking myself… when the three jokers went off on the 800m climb near Yvelines [Roglič, Van Aert, Laporte at the 2022 Paris-Nice], that’s the international peloton, and at Paris-Nice there’s been less than three months of racing. We’ve all done training camps. They put four pedal strokes down and they gained 10 metres. How are they doing it? I was in this environment not long ago. The discussions around the buses… It’s not just the small teams who were complaining. But no one says anything.”
“With [Lance] Armstrong there wasn’t any proof either. We’re waiting for the wall to hit us in the face. But it’ll perhaps be too late,” Pineau added.
La respuesta de Jumbo ha sido curiosa, muy en plan Armstrong, atacando al emisor de la acusación en lugar de negar la acusación. Mira que podria haber dicho que invitaba a Pineau y la UCI el día que quieran a que inspeccionen sus bicicletas, pero no, mejor tratar de desautorizar la acusador.
“Comments of a 'team manager' who signed multiple riders and staff and then in October it turned out that he was fooling everybody and put all these people in a bad position? That person can talk about others?” Zeeman told GCN via text.
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