Jonas Vingegaard and doping accusations; feud at INEOS between Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez - New details emerge over 2023 Tour de France Netflix series
CyclingWednesday, 05 June 2024 at 09:06
Tour de France: Unchained is coming out this weekend and the tension builds up towards the second season of the Netflix show that shows the behind-the-scenes of several 2023 Tour de France teams. New details have emerged regarding what to expect from the eight-episode series.
From what we know already, the series through it's two released trailers (on the 17th and 28th of May) is set to show the preparation of these teams including UAE Team Emirates and Team Visma | Lease a Bike and recovery of Tadej Pogacar following his scaphoid fracture suffered in a crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège; but also drama within the team buses, most notably Wout van Aert who missed out on a win throughout the race and had a few lost opportunities. However, this will not be the only bus drama present in the series.
Le Parisien has had early access to the series that will come out in the 8th of June, and in a review it reveals news details of what will be present on the screens. The element of tragedy will very much be present, with the Tour taking place only a few weeks after the death of Gino Mäder, of which a few riders talk about. Ben O'Connor specifically being one of them, and the series also show a lot of tension and heated arguments between him and the AG2R team.
The most notable argument however perhaps is one that did not seem to come through the big screens at last year's race: Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez of INEOS Grenadiers. The British team, entering the race without an absolute leader, saw Pidcock grow into form and test himself as a possible GC contender - climbing as high as eighth after stage 10, but ultimately ending the race in 13th spot. Carlos Rodríguez finished fifth, but won stage 14 and on that day he was in the podium together with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar. Pidcock was very irritated with the decision of INEOS to protect Rodríguez as the absolute priority and at the Grand Colombier he attacked against team orders.
The famous feud between Visma and Groupama-FDJ managers Richard Plugge and Marc Madiot was also tackled, regarding the comments of Plugge on the FDJ riders having beer during the race. The CEO of the Dutch team admits this was created to get the media to stop asking questions regarding Jonas Vingegaard and doping speculation following the stage 16 time-trial in which he put on an unbelievable performance. This came also because Madiot himself seems to insinuate that the Danish rider was not clean - to which Vingegaard himself also responds in this series.
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- I'm not quite ready to declare Tadej DOA. But it is fantastic to see Jonas back at such good form after a lacklustre springmobk11-06-2025
- In your opinion, the UAE pays a multi-million dollar contract for years to retain a talent, but its real goal is to get a good domestic? I don't believe it.
maria2024202411-06-2025 - I believe you are underestimating the influence of entourage, you/we have no idea how riders are being prepared and the target/goal management has in mind (which may not always be what they tell the riders) AND whether they are being optimally trained to bring out their FULL potential or just to be optimal servants, those are two very different roles, like comparing cycling with triathlon riding.Mistermaumau11-06-2025
- maybe allergy, it's spring.maria2024202411-06-2025
- I'm talking about Contador comment. Really? read this thread, except me, everyone pitying the poor victim Ayuso.maria2024202411-06-2025
- Yes I agree.1stpastthepost11-06-2025
- Cyclingsbestfan I have to agree with you. I don't think the problem is all Auso's fault. Auso is like square peg in a round hole in that team. I can see a parting of the ways coming.1stpastthepost11-06-2025
- Amazing race so far with too many surprise results to discuss, this will create great buzz for the Tour.Mistermaumau11-06-2025
- Maybe a new technique in breathing exercise to swell lungs ;-)Mistermaumau11-06-2025
- What are you talking about, the majority of comments are out to criticise him, maybe it’s natural that some then feel he deserves a little back-up sometimes too?Mistermaumau11-06-2025
As the saying goes if the performance is to good to be true it usually is. Even the manager of visma was astounded at the performance on the netflix documentary. Smacks of the old Rabobank Rasmussen going from non tt rider to a level of miguel indurain and going from losing 4.5 minutes to putting 3mins into his rivals. Maybe a Danish thing Riss Rasmussen . Haha food for thought
If anyone is on a systematic, industrial scale doping program it's Visma.
After all this is the trade team that was PDM: pills, drugs, medicine
I think most teams are hands off and let the riders do their own thing. Too much to lose when I team gets caught. Of course, everyone is on something, including the guys fighting to make the time cuts
Yep, it would be hard to get through a single GT without some type of red blood cell recovery.
Riders have been doping since the beginning and still are, we just don't know who. And honestly, I really don't care until they are caught.
I’m not so sure if alluding to doping is the way to draw attention to cycling is best.
For sure it’ll cause a stir among the already engaged fans but to a newbie it’d be more of a turn off specially given that there’s already talk of the big 4, their dominance and the skeptics writing pages on how they’re parents doped them as kids, even past riders having a thing or two to say about them.
I’m new to the scene so what do I know.
Vingegard not clean, I'm sure he gets a shower regularly..