While the extraordinary performance of Tadej Pogacar arouses suspicion of doping, the commentator of France Télévisions, Alexandre Pasteur, defended the Slovenian runner.
Tadej Pogacar never ceases to impress. Less than three weeks before the Grand Departure from the Tour de France 2025, where he will try to pass four,
The UAE-Emirates training leader has won the Critérium du Dauphiné fairly quietly. And it was not the presence of his main rivals, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel, who prevented him from driving once again on competition.
But these incredible performances combined with business that rocked the world of cycling in the 1990s, in particular, leads certain observers to raise the possibility of a doping. Inevitable doubts that Alexander Pasteur, who is preparing to comment on his ninth consecutive edition of the Grande Boucle on France Télévisions, tried to explain.
For the 54 -year -old journalist, “Pogi” is simply extraordinary. “” It is a genius, we can also have it. There is always only one dominant male in cycling. A tadej pogacar is one every 20 years, and again … “Said Alexandre Pasteur during an interview with East Republican, before giving another explanation.
Pastor on Pogacar: “It’s a genius, we can also have it”
“” It is very paradoxical, runners roll faster than in the 90s when the peloton was stuffed with EPO, growth hormones and autotransfusions, so it raises questions, he recognizes. I am told that they are all doped because it rolls faster than at Lance Armstrong’s era, but we must take into account important parameters: we do not run the same way as in the 1990s and 2000. “
For Alexandre Pasteur, comparing a 2025 bicycle to that of the 1990s is comparing a tank of assault on a formula 1. The power-power, rigidity, energy, hubs or wheels, have nothing to do. Enough to silence the suspicions? Nothing is less certain …
