Translated from : http://www.humanite.fr/2007-07-27_Sports_-Un-maillot-jaune-hors-des-limites-humaines
“A yellow jersey out of the human limits”
Which credibility to give now to the classification general? The answers of Antoine Vayer, ex-trainer of the team Feasted.
Rasmussen returned to the house and its lies, that to think from now on of the sporting value of the Turn of France? Decoding with Antoine Vayer, professor of EPS, former chronicler of TDF for Humanity and ex-trainer of the team Feasted, of 1996 to 1998. It directs today AlternatiV, a cell of drive and research whose objective is to propose an alternative to doping. Seldom the language in its pocket, it passes to the moulinette and the machine-gun this Turn 2007.
Is Christian Prudhomme, the owner of the Tour, considers the classification general more credible after the ousting of the Rasmussen Dane, also your opinion?
Antoine Vayer.Non, absolutely not! On the contrary…
Why?
Antoine Vayer. Because Christian Prudhomme has pulp in the eyes, that it looks at which is as follows of the new yellow jersey, Alberto Contador. To say that the Tour de France is credible, it is to make fun of the world. Even French runners take corticoids, one knows it very well. Let us not be hypocritical.
Where to go up in the classification to find a winner clean, then? Until the red lantern, the Vansevenant Belgian, 150e, with more than three hours of the head?
Antoine Vayer. Insofar as it A would be there this only ten runners which explode the race thanks to doping, there is no more no sporting credibility. One cannot seek a direction with something which does not have any.
If the Turn does not have any more a smell, not to continue as much towards Paris?
Antoine Vayer. Yes, it is my opinion.
I sent a message besides to the owner of the Turn, Christian Prudhomme, in this direction two days ago.
What did it answer you?
Antoine Vayer.Qu' it was necessary to go to Paris, that I had not shown a great courage in 1998 at the time of the Festina business while not speaking, by not saying what I knew.
Do you have répendu in return?
Antoine Vayer.I do not have to answer that. Christian Prudhomme is not the right man for the job. It is necessary today to react! One did not have to select Astana, the team of Vinokourov, nor the Barloworld team, that of best climbing Mauricio Soler.
You blame the performances of best climbing of this Tour 2007?
Antoine Vayer. According to our calculations of power delivered in the collars, Soler it is anything, it is a monster!
Do a monster, you want to say that it is inhuman?
Antoine Vayer. Yes, it is on the level of Lance Armstrong in certain rises.
Who doesn't exceed his limits, according to your calculations, in this Turn of France? Australian Cadel Evans, current second, seems to suffer in the collars…?
Antoine Vayer. Not, Evans exceeds his limits. There are 20 to 25 runners in this Turn of France which exceed the human limits. But not inevitably 25 first of the general, even if many is except limits…
Which are the human limits?
Antoine Vayer. Let us take Michael Rasmussen, it pushes 430 Watts on average during the four larger rises of the Turn, an individual lambda pushes only 200 of them, Lance Armstrong pushed some a little less than 430. And reasonably, one can locate the human limit at 400-410 Watts.
How do you make your calculations?
They are limits of power which one can observe compared to the boarding times in certain referred rises of the Tour of France, for that one is useful oneself of the images of television.
Could your calculations be used as a basis for a selection on next Tour, make kinds of minima and eliminate those which go too quickly?
Antoine Vayer. The runners should already be supervised one year front with the means currently available.
However, the current means seem insufficient? What is necessary to improve to attend a clean Tour finally?
Antoine Vayer. It is necessary to change the statute of the runners so that one can stop them médicalement when they are except standards, that they do not have any more any legal recourse. The solutions have existed for ten years, there is just necessary to be spit in the pognes. In six months, it's done.
Six months for all to regulate, then give us your action plan, immediately…
Antoine Vayer. One needs independent laboratories which supervise the 400 runners likely to make the Turn by analyzing their blood tests, their hair which is also of good indicators. Then, there are the indirect means: with our calculations of power, one can see that the rise of the current yellow jersey Alberto Contador in the collar of Lies on Paris-Nice, in March, exceeds the human limits. To leave die, one makes him a stop of work and one asks to him to explain us how it made, the eyes in the eyes.
