Marc Madiot blasts Jumbo-Visma manager for claims that French riders drank beer on Tour de France rest day

Groupama-FDJ boss Marc Madiot
Groupama-FDJ team manager Marc Madiot (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Groupama-FDJ manager Marc Madiot has roundly rejected claims by his counterpart at Jumbo-Visma, Richard Plugge, that the riders from the French team had been seen drinking “big beers” on the second rest day of the Tour de France.

Plugge had made the accusations in an interview in LÉquipe, where he again defended his team from any kind of malpractice, insisting that race leader Jonas Vingegaard “did not even like taking paracetamol” and “refuses to use Ketones.”  

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.