Former FDJ runner, Sandy Casar returned to certain scenes that marked him in the red iron during her years in the peloton.
Sandy Casar’s career is intimately linked to the Tour de France. The Ile-de-France also won the Southern Route in 2005, Paris-Camembert in 2011 or finished 6e From the Giro in 2006 but if the former FDJ runner remained in the memories, it is much more for his three stage successes on the Grande Boucle, in 2007, 2009 and 2010, or his 10e Place in the general classification in 2009.
Sandy Casar has nevertheless known very large disillusions on the Tour de France, notably collecting the second places on the stages. Above all, the native of Mantes-la-Jolie held herself there with doping, as he told in an interview with Pedal.
Obliged to brake in the uphill turns
“I see myself trying to make Rasmussen slow down in the breakaway, with an Italian of Lampre, in the stage which left Bourg-d’Oisans. We start to set up the iron cross, he sees that we will start again. They drop us so easily, he remembered. No, it’s another world. The next day, Landis wins in Morzine … Seeing him on TV, you have the impression that he jumps a board of cyclo-cross when he passes the line and descends from his bike. Explain to me, what. »»
“Another image remained in my mind, because it puts the balls: those of Contador and Rasmussen which brake in the turns of the last laces of the Galibier. It would never have come to my mind, to brake … There is a whole period with extraordinary stuff. In short, it was frustrating and, from time to time, pleasant to beat them. You hung on for these little moments. And fortunately, it was not all year round as on the Tour. »»
However, Sandy Casar was able to accommodate this two -speed cycling. “If we had asked too many questions, I think we would have done as a bowl, we would have stopped. When I started in 2000, there had certainly been Festina in 98, but we did not know who was cheating or not. We managed to make results anyway, from time to time. And then those who beat you, it’s not necessarily only … “
