Mike Teunissen critical of Tour de France accomodation: "It's unbelievable where one of the biggest sporting events in the world takes us"

Mike Teunissen does not have a good word about the hotels where he has to sleep this Tour de France. The Dutchman is used to something, but in conversation with NOS he openly talks about what he found after Saturday's stage.

"I got the biggest blow in the evening, when after a two-hour bus journey I ended up in some three-star room of two by two, forty degrees and no air conditioning. I couldn't even open the suitcase, then I got a bit of a hard time," Teunissen laughs.

It is a well-known phenomenon in the Tour, but Teunissen will not get used to it quickly. "I don't want to compare myself to Champions League footballers, but it's unbelievable where one of the biggest sporting events in the world takes us. If tennis players at Wimbledon or footballers in the Champions League end up in such places, they immediately turn around."

According to Teunissen, French teams get preferential treatment. "It doesn't make you happy after such a hard day, but that's also cycling," continues the Dutchman, who fell hard in the fourteenth stage."I can stand on my head here, but it's never going to change. It's a matter of accepting it, throwing in a sleeping pill and hoping that it will be ok today."