"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.

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