"Il accepte la sanction" : Alexandre Pasteur revient sur l'exclusion de Thomas Voeckler du Tour de France avec des images inédites de l'incident
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00:00 I would like to come back to what happened yesterday with Thomas Vaucler's motorcycle.
00:04 We will show you the footage.
00:05 I want to tell you, Thomas, who was sanctioned with his driver,
00:10 look at the footage, will come to tell us what really happened tonight in Véloclub.
00:16 You see, Thomas on the motorcycle with his driver, who is stuck.
00:22 Exactly, Thomas was not in an illicit place in relation to the regulation of the vehicles.
00:27 The problem is that in front of him there was a funnel, a jam.
00:32 The motorcycle stopped, it could not start again.
00:34 We were in a corner at 24%, higher than the slope.
00:37 The clutch is tired by these mountain roads.
00:39 The motorcycle could not start again.
00:41 The result, well, behind, there is a racing car that stopped.
00:44 And it also blocked a lot of riders, including the yellow jersey Jonas Wingard.
00:47 So here it is, it's an unfortunate incident.
00:49 Thomas accepts the sanction.
00:50 That's it.
00:51 No problem.
00:52 And today, therefore, he is not allowed to be on the motorcycle.
00:55 He will be with us, already on the podium tonight, with Céline.
00:59 And he will come to Véloclub.
01:01 In fact, we wonder if the sanction is deserved.
01:04 But in fact, it is from the moment when it has hindered the race, there is a sanction.
01:09 Is that a bit like that, Laurent?
01:10 Yes, that's it.
01:11 He was well placed until the moment when he could no longer move forward because of the problem,
01:14 as we just explained to Alexandre.
01:15 And for once, he becomes embarrassing.
01:17 And there, he is sanctioned for hindering the evolution of the race.
01:21 It is completely involuntary, of course.
01:22 Thomas left me a little message this morning.
01:25 He told me, "That's how it is.
01:27 We have nothing to blame ourselves for, but we are wrong."
01:30 And he told me, "Good luck to you."
01:31 And we see the motorcycles that are...
01:34 It's true that it's a job that is still very, very complicated
01:36 because there is a crazy world in these passes.
01:38 And people can get closer and closer to the currents.
01:41 And in these steep slopes, it's very complicated for the bikers.
01:43 Be careful, because the motorcycles weigh.
01:44 It's 400 kilos, the motorcycle, with the man, the equipment.
01:47 Sometimes, by the way, you have to get off the motorcycle to help the rider, sometimes.
01:50 Yes, but what I mean is that in slopes like this,
01:52 the riders evolve at 14, 15 km / h.
01:55 And on a motorcycle at 14, 15 km / h, you're on the verge of the downshift.
01:57 You're almost breaking your pipe.
01:59 So you play the clutch.
02:00 And that's it.
02:01 But all you have to do is have someone in front of you,
02:04 a brake shot, and you don't leave.
02:05 And if the motorcycle falls, it's a disaster.
02:07 It happened last year at the Tour de France Femmes,
02:09 at the Superplanche des Belfi.
02:10 A motorcycle broke its pipe in the last corner,
02:13 in the slope that was very steep, and it couldn't leave.
02:15 Yes.
02:16 So that's another debate.
02:17 But I have the impression that the spectators are getting closer and closer,
02:22 more and more riders in these...
02:24 There's a phenomenon.
02:25 Exactly, Laurent, there's a phenomenon this year on the Tour.
02:27 We have a larger audience, younger, more festive,
02:31 overflowing with enthusiasm.
02:32 We're sometimes at the limit.
02:33 And here we're on very, very narrow roads.
02:35 The Col de la Loz, the end of the Col de la Loz,
02:37 it's a cycle path.
02:38 It's not a road.
02:39 It's a cycle path, a very narrow gutter.
02:40 And inevitably, it's hard to channel the audience
02:42 and get all the vehicles through.