In an interview in Ouest France, Bernard Sainz, said that Mathieu Van der Poel had recovered the recommendations he had given during his career to his grandfather, Raymond Poulidor.
At 81, Bernard Sainz, nicknamed “Doctor Mabuse” is no longer a controversy, and he created a new one in an interview with Frank weste last week. Homeopath and naturopath, the Breton, who claims to have been born in the Brocéliande forest, found himself at the heart of many doping cases in cycling. Next September, during his appeal trial, he will also know if he returns through the prison box, where he has already spent several months, for “aid or incentive to the use of prohibited substances or methods in the context of a sporting demonstration”. In the regional daily interview, Bernard Sainz talks about his links with Raymond Poulidor, who died in 2019 at 83, and spoke of his grandson, Mathieu Van der Poel.
“He recovered all the recommendations I gave to his grandfather, Raymond Poulidor. Yes, our paths crossed. There is a transmission. »» A little sentence to which the 30 -year -old Dutch champion did not react, whose name has never been cited in the smallest doping. And in view of the past of the “Doctor Mabuse”, the runner of Alpecin-Deceuninck, who will participate in the next Tour de France, will undoubtedly be lowered to answer.
Poulidor had admitted having taken amphetamines
Officially, Raymond Poulidor has never been checked positive either. But on several occasions, he said after his career having taken products to increase his physical capacities.
“Of course, we too were taking some vitamins, some exciting, but nothing as risky for health”, he had declared to The team in 1997. Then in June 2016, on France 2Thinking then that the camera no longer turned, the man with the 73 victories revealed: “They were amphetamines. We were taking twice nothing. We had said that the students took one or two Maxiton, that was it. But that had nothing to do with it now. It was to hold, it was for morale ”.
Raymond Poulidor had completed his career in 1977, at 41, and won his last victory two years ago. Bernard Sainz claims to have contributed to the “Renaissance” of Poulidor and accompanied when he was sports director of the Gan-Mercier team. And to add a little oil to the fire, the “Doctor Mabuse” boasts of being today always close to Mauro Gianetti, the manager of Tadej Pogacar.
