Jerome Pineau lashes out at Lance Armstrong for recommending Pogacar to keep low profile: "He was arrogance personified, he should keep his mouth shut"
CyclingMonday, 29 July 2024 at 11:27
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.
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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Armstrong=POS. Please stop giving him press and fwiw I NEVER read articles w/POS's name...just see the headline and comment like this.
Anyone with half a brain cell can see Pogacar is doping
Anyone can see that most pro cyclists are doping. The question is are they being given a pass or just beating the tests? No way JV rode like that without far more than being lucky. Multiple former riders with similar injuries were quoted as saying that even breathing was hard many months after a punctured lung. Yet here we see him riding near top form. And Tadej, much as I like him, won 2 GTs with a combined time gap of around 9min average for both. And he was faster in both races than anyone else ever. However, both races had riders break records that have stood since the 1990s high doping GTs. If that isn't a sign...what is
'stole seven editions' who wasn't using drugs in the 90’s? especially!
Glad to read Pineau's comments. Oh so true. How someone as disgraced as L.A. has the audacity to give anyone cycling advice let alone Pogocar is beyond me. He , Armstrong should just go away and take up pickle ball.
The Armstrong years were the absolute worst period in cycling.