Jerome Pineau lashes out at Lance Armstrong for recommending Pogacar to keep low profile: "He was arrogance personified, he should keep his mouth shut"

Jerôme Pineau, former French cyclist and rival of Lance Armstrong, has taken a sharp shot at the American and convicted doping offender. On his podcast, Armstrong was talking about this year's Tour dominator Tadej Pogacar, to whom he recommended "keeping a low profile" during the final stages of the Tour so as not to arouse suspicion.

Statements for which Armstrong was now sharply criticized by Pineau. In the podcast Les Grandes Gueules du Sport on the French channel RMC Sport, the Frenchman said: "This is another lesson from a guy who did exactly the opposite."Then it became borderline: "The fact that he talks about humility and values ​​is like Marc Dutroux talking to you about raising your children." Dutroux is considered one of the worst serial killers in the modern history of Europe.

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Pineau sees Armstrong's call for more humility as a scandal. "Apart from the fact that he stole seven editions of the Tour de France and lied to millions of people suffering from cancer, but also that he politicized his sport to the point of buying the authorities, he was anything but humble," recalled the expert from RMC Sport.

"He was arrogance personified. I lived through his time and was traumatized," Pineau continued his tirade about Armstrong. Finally, he gave the American some rather less well-intentioned advice: "He has nothing to say, he has to keep his mouth shut."

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