David Lappartient: “Merckx and Hinault already consider Pogaçar one of them”.

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The president of the UCI receives MARCA in his office and reviews the glorious era of cycling and the challenges of the World Championships, cycling safety, doping, the boom of women...

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00:07El carril de la época de la época de la época de la época de la época de la época de la época

00:14I don't know if it's a golden age as ever but it's one of the golden age of cycling

00:19because it's true that we have wonderful races, wonderful athletes, riders

00:24and they always want to fight in a way and they take cycling as a game

00:33so it's clearly less boring than it was at some points and very exciting

00:38so yes it's nice and I think cycling is becoming more and more popular

00:44the TV audiences are high and yes that's really a golden age for cycling

00:50you know I think he's one of these leaders who will be part of the history of cycling

01:01if you speak with Eddie Merckx or Bernard Hainaut

01:05for them Pogacar is one of them

01:09and they have a lot of respect for what he's doing

01:13so I think if you compare Merckx and Pogacar the same age

01:17they are not far away one from another

01:20so yes we can in a way compare Pogacar to Merckx

01:24it will be in Rwanda

01:26we never have doubts that it will be in Rwanda

01:30and that will be in Rwanda

01:32very happy to see so that over the last days or weeks

01:36they've been able to find an agreement in between Rwanda and IRDC

01:42under the leadership and umbrella of United States of America

01:46and then they sign a kind of first document to sign a peace agreement

01:53and that's great so the situation is becoming calm now

02:00and it will be a huge huge success

02:03so I'm very pleased to see that the pressure is decreasing

02:07and that it will be a huge success

02:09and for the first edition in Africa

02:13that was quite important for us

02:15we expect to have really a lot of people along the route

02:19probably the most overcrowded World Championship ever

02:23that's a big issue for all of us

02:27for the riders first

02:29because that their job

02:30it's very stressful to race today

02:32to be with all these obstacles

02:34for the teams of course

02:36because you don't want to endanger your employees in a way

02:40for the organizers

02:41because you don't organize a race

02:43to have incidents or accidents

02:45and for the UCI

02:47because our mission is to ensure that it's safe

02:49so with that said

02:51I have to say that

02:54we are working together

02:56and we create it safer

02:58in order to bring all the families

03:00not to throw the hot potatoes from one to another

03:03but let's face it together

03:05one of the big difficulties that we have today

03:08is the roads are becoming more friendly

03:13for pedestrians or cyclists

03:15but not for cycling competition

03:17it's a quite long debate

03:19and you know my personal feeling is that we don't need radio in a race

03:28I know some stakeholders are not in agreement with this

03:31some riders are in favor

03:33some riders are against

03:34team managers are more in favor

03:36the fans are completely against

03:38so it's not so easy

03:40but you have races where you don't have earpieces

03:43like UCI World Championships

03:45one epic games

03:46and you have less crashes

03:48so it's not true to say that

03:52with earpieces it's more safe

03:54you know it's forbidden to have earpieces

03:57when you drive a car

03:59because it can disturb you from being

04:03from your attention to drive your car

04:06so I believe it's a bit the same

04:08with that said

04:09it has to be also with the UCI rules

04:13and you have to also respect the existing races

04:18so how we can bring a new economic model

04:23how we can enlarge our revenues

04:25without also only giving opportunities to races

04:31that will be part of one cycling

04:33instead of races not part necessarily of one cycling

04:38we have to be careful

04:40and not to give more advantage to some races

04:43just because they could be part of one cycling

04:46you know

04:48Paris-Roubaix will still be Paris-Roubaix

04:51whether it's a one cycling race or not

04:56and it will be more important

04:58than the Grand Prix de Plouet

05:00we'll just take two races in France

05:02not to make any problem in Spain

05:04but I think we are the sport of anti-doping

05:07clearly we are the leading international federation

05:10but we have to stay awake

05:12because this fight will never end

05:15we will always have to fight

05:17why? because we have new substances

05:19a new method

05:21so we have to work with laboratories

05:24and more specifically with the ITA

05:26so we invest a lot

05:28close to 10 million Swiss francs

05:29which is close to 10 million euros

05:31it's huge

05:32and I will always say that credibility has no price

05:37but it has a cost for us

05:39the water must also invest more in the research

05:43because we collect all the samples

05:46we work with police and so on

05:47but at the end

05:48it's not our job to make the analysis

05:51the analysis are made by laboratories

05:54that receive a certification

05:56from the World Anti-doping Agency

05:58and

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