💛 #MaVilleEnJaune avec @MaillotjauneLCL 💛 Que les battles commencent avec le premier match de la semaine entre @VilledeDax et @ville_libourne ! Laquelle met le mieux le Maillot Jaune en valeur ? À vos votes ! 👇 #TDF2023
Marc Madiot dismisses Tour de France's controversial proposal to broadcast of team radio: "Can you imagine we’d reveal our conversations on TV?"
CyclingWednesday, 14 June 2023 at 10:45
After the success of the recent Netflix documentary, Tour de France organisers are keen to make the race more and more open and accessible to fans. One way in which they are keen to do so is through the broadcasting of team radio.
One person who is not a fan of this proposal however, is Groupama - FDJ boss, Marc Madiot. "Can you imagine we’d reveal our conversations on TV?" Madiot exclaims in disbelief to Ouest-France. "Do you really conceive a TV camera being allowed to film a football team trainer giving his players their half-time instructions.”
This wouldn't be unheard of for a sport to broadcast team radio. As seen in the likes of Formula 1, where throughout the race, snippets of conversations between drivers and team bosses are played on the TV, where the viewing audience can listen.
"We have nothing to hide, so we’re ok with this,” says TotalEnergies Jean-René Bernadeau with his sports director Benoît Génauzeau agreeing. “That forms part of the evolution of our sport, and I don’t think this will give away any secrets. It will be screened, I can work with this.”
claps 0visitors 568
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Thanks Dadmobk22-12-2024
- Hard to believe with the advancment of modern medicine he can not find a cause for this.frieders321-12-2024
- You continue to platform these two cheats. With that in mind I can no longer use your site. I know my leaving means little, but, sometimes you have to take a stand. See ya!DJ21-12-2024
- Look at what Froome’s won since his last TdF, stop denying there is still more than possible one outcome to the future.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- Bruyneel understands nothing about clean competition.Sweep21-12-2024
- Exactly. Remco won 3 WT races/stages last year compared to Pogocar's 19. Remco's single stage win in last years TdF earned him a meager 12 seconds over Pogocar who shellac'd him by 9 minutes in GC.Sweep21-12-2024
- Fortunately and as you point out, more than one strategy is possible and worth trying and I’m sure all concerned riders are well informed and counselled on this subject and don’t need such basic personal advice through media from an outsider.Mistermaumau21-12-2024
- The main SPOTY award is "decided" by public vote but the BBC "expert panel" decide who you can choose from, that choice has an equal split of genders and is focussed on the sports BBC show and a disabled athlete. Oh yea the ubiquitous "Pub Games" candidate there too, Darts and Snooker are not sports. The other awards are decided by the "Expert Panel" again it's about the sports BBC show, cycling has had it. Cav got his for his years and achievements in the sport, not just that 35th TDF win. Unless the BBC get access to Pro Cycling it will never feature "adequately" on SPOTYslappers6621-12-2024
- Ahhh..... you have to understand the "strange" diversity concepts of the BBCslappers6621-12-2024
- Avoiding him is a good strategy, you get more wins and then you can compete in the TDF relatively relaxed. Pit yourself against Pogi and not only there will be no wins, it will be considerable mental setbackabstractengineer21-12-2024