Out of context, the tweet posted by David Gaudu this Thursday morning seems quite lunar: “My remarks should never have been made in a public setting. I apologized to the team and to Arnaud. The team is Groupama-FDJ and Arnaud is Démare, Gaudu’s teammate in the tricolor formation. The 4th in the last Tour de France is contrite after severely criticizing his fellow sprinter in a conversation on the social network Discord, which dates back to January 20.
The Breton released all the enmity he feels for the Picard, winner of Milan-Sanremo in 2016. Selected pieces: “He almost put me on the ground on purpose not long ago”, “He didn’t wanted to get in the elevator because “there’s Gaudu”, “I don’t want him to come to the Tour [2023]. So good Netflix or not, we don’t care [sic] »…
If we are to believe Gaudu, this enmity dates back to 2017: “there have been too many things that have been done upside down, even a big lack of respect”… Of course, there are better ways to start a season for a team, and in particular for a sporting director.
Madiot in Blue Helmet
“They are not friends, okay, but I do not ask the runners to be friends, but to know how to work together, reacted Marc Madiot, questioned through West France. And I have enough experience to know that it is not necessarily those with whom you are the friendliest that you work the best…”
Madiot also castigates “a kid’s bullshit” (Gaudu still displays 26 years old) and ensures that the two riders will be reunited on the next Paris-Nice, from March 5 to 12.
In his diatribe on Discord, Gaudu had nevertheless declared: “The war is not over. We are on a crusade. The advantage is that we don’t talk to each other, we don’t or almost never ride together. “It’s all in the “almost”.