Author of a resounding rant on Tuesday, against Nils Politt, Thomas Voeckler had himself had a bad experience with certain cadors of the peloton.
Thomas Voeckler did not like what he saw on Tuesday, when several runners were trying to get out of the peloton. Tadej Pogacar teammate, Nils Politt did the police by taking it verbally to Einer Rubio to refresh him in his ardor.
“There is no worst attitude, denounced Thomas Voeckler at the microphone of France Télévisions. It is often the teammates, and not the leader, who point out and say: “Eh, small!” You have not understood that it is the big ones who play today! I hate runners, on the pretext that they are stronger or in large training courses, who want to make their law. These are detestable attitudes. »»
This episode probably reminded him of some bad memories. His taste for attack sometimes went wrong with his condediples in the peloton. This is evidenced by the anecdote delivered to
The team Regarding an incident that occurred during the 2006 Tour de France.
Thomas Voeckler-Tom Boonen, the clash
“Tom Boonen, reigning world champion, was on the front line to delay, to make his chief a little. As I launch my attack, he strikes me violently in my back, he said. I stopped, he felt me on it and I said to him: “You brass if you want but you don’t touch me. »»
“I was the little Frenchman on whom he could hit because I measure thirty centimeters less than him. Whatever his record, no one has the right to do this to a guy who wants to attack. I cannot forget ”, He had added about the Belgian runner, who had worn the yellow jersey from the fifth to the eighth stage.
