Présent dans Vélo Club ce jeudi 20 juillet, Thomas Voeckler s'est exprimé à la suite de son exclusion de la 18e étape du Tour de France qui avait lieu ce même jour entre Moûtiers et Bourg-en-Bresse...
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00:00 This bike that crashed, you were...
00:03 No?
00:04 No, it didn't crash.
00:05 It stopped?
00:06 Yeah, no, no, we didn't crash.
00:08 There was a bike that stopped, a neutral car that stopped, another bike from the organization, a 3-wheeled bike that stopped, and so we obviously stopped behind, but we didn't crash.
00:17 Yeah, but that's why it's good that you're explaining to us what really happened.
00:21 Well, the vehicles I just mentioned stopped, so we obviously stopped behind, the road is narrow, and we have to respect that we don't overtake anyway.
00:30 And then, with the weight of the bike, there were already a lot of kilometers of ascent to go, the bike did more than 350 kilos empty, there were 25% at that time, maybe 30 inside.
00:40 We couldn't restart, we couldn't restart, and then with the audience that came to help us, to push, but you can see that it happens all at once, wanting to do well, and the riders arrived at the same time, so it's not...
00:50 The bike, already, the pilot Joël Chary managed not to let it lie down, because people were pushing from all sides.
00:55 It's a catastrophic situation, it's lying down.
00:57 Oh yes, I think that... Well, it's even worse. So, we had the right to be at that place, we were where we had to be in relation to the rules of circulation behind the race, and then of course, after, yes, we couldn't restart.
01:14 So we were responsible for the fact that the riders were embarrassed, we were sanctioned, it's normal.
01:17 But it's true, you didn't make a mistake, you were sanctioned, but do we see the sanction wrongly?
01:23 Our fault is that we couldn't restart.
01:26 So we embarrassed the race. Yes, we embarrassed the race.