David Lappartient: "Merckx e Hinault ya consideran a Pogaçar uno de ellos"

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21/5/2025

El presidente del ciclismo mundial aborda todos los temas candentes de su deporte: Pogacar, la seguridad en el ciclismo, la amenaza del dinero saudí y el dopaje.

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

00:19it's true that we have wonderful races, wonderful athletes, riders and they always want to fight

00:27in a way and they take cycling as a game so it's clearly less boring than it was at some points

00:36and very exciting so 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 Hino, for them Pogacar is one of them and they have

01:10a lot of respect for what he's doing so I think if you compare Merckx and Pogacar the same age,

01:17they are not far away one from another so yes we can in a way compare Pogacar to Merckx.

01:25It will be in Rwanda.

01:27We never have doubts that it will be in Rwanda and that will be in Rwanda.

01:32Very happy to see so that over the last days or weeks they've been able to find an agreement

01:39in between Rwanda and IRDC under the leadership and umbrella of United States of America and

01:46then they sign a kind of first document to sign a peace agreement and that's great.

01:55So the situation is becoming calm now and it will be a huge huge success so I'm very

02:03pleased to see that the pressure is decreasing and that it will be a huge success and for

02:09the first edition in Africa that was quite important for us.

02:15We expect to have really a lot of people along the route, probably the most overcrowded World

02:22Championship ever.

02:25That's a big issue for all of us.

02:27For the riders first because that their job it's very stressful to race today to be with

02:33all these obstacles, for the teams of course because you don't want to endanger your employees

02:39in a way, for the organizers because you don't organize a race to have incidents or accidents,

02:46and for the UCI because our mission is to ensure that it's safe.

02:49So with that said, I have to say that we are working together and we create it safer in

02:58order to bring all the families, not to throw the hot potatoes from one to another but let's

03:04face it together.

03:06One of the big difficulties that we have today is that the roads are becoming more friendly

03:13for pedestrians or cyclists but not for cycling competition.

03:18It's a quite long debate and 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.

03:32Some riders are in favor, some riders are against, team managers are more in favor, the fans

03:36are completely against.

03:38So it's not so easy.

03:41But you have races where you don't have earpieces like UCI World Championships, Wannapig Games

03:47and you have less crashes.

03:48So it's not true to say that with earpieces it's more safe.

03:55You know it's forbidden to have earpieces when you drive a car because it can disturb you

04:02from being, from your attention to drive your car.

04:07So I believe it's a bit the same.

04:08With that said, it 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 without also only giving opportunities to races that will

04:31be part of one cycling instead of races not part necessarily of one cycling.

04:38We have to be careful and not to give more advantage to some races just because they could be part

04:44of one cycling.

04:46You know, Paris-Roubaix will still be Paris-Roubaix whether it's a one cycling race or not.

04:56And it will be more important than the Grand Prix de Plouet will 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, but we have to stay awake.

05:12Because this fight will never end.

05:15We will as always to fight.

05:17Why?

05:18Because we have new substances, a new method.

05:22So we have to work with laboratories and more specifically with the ITA.

05:26So we invest a lot, close to 10 million Swiss francs, which is close to 10 million euros.

05:31It's huge.

05:33And I will always say that credibility has no price, but it has a cost for us.

05:40The water must also invest more in the research because we collect all the samples.

05:46We work with police and so on.

05:47But at the end, it's not our job to make the analysis.

05:51The analysis are made with laboratories that receive a certification from the World Anti-Doping

05:57Agency.

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