{"id":296655,"date":"2025-12-03T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296655\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:00:11","slug":"marc-madiot-fears-for-cyclings-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296655\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Madiot fears for cycling&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not an environmental zealot, but there are still basic principles and fundamental rules to respect,&#8221; the enfuriated team manager of Groupama &#8211; FDJ <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/marc-madiot\" title=\"Marc Madiot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Madiot<\/a>\u00a0told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rmcsport.bfmtv.com\/cyclisme\/championnats-du-monde\/c-est-dramatique-pour-notre-sport-madiot-vent-debout-contre-les-montagnes-artificielles-a-abu-dhabi-pour-avantager-pogacar_AV-202512010470.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RMC<\/a>. &#8220;Having a world championship there, why not? But if we get to this kind of situation, it&#8217;s disastrous for our sport, and indirectly for others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While not persay against an artificially adjusted course, the Frenchman sees a big issue with the trend of disappearing races designated to sprinters. However what is truly alarming is that a single rider&#8217;s &#8211; Tadej Pogacar&#8217;s &#8211; success is enough for organizers to bend backwards to please his rider profile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are at a turning point in what sport should be or can still be,&#8221; he continues. According to Madiot, it&#8217;s the cycling stakeholders who should take action before routes and even entire landscapes are transformed only to please fans, or let alone favor a single cyclist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the International Federation and its president need to regain control of this type of situation. It&#8217;s the UCI that awards the World Championships based on a set of specifications. I can&#8217;t imagine the UCI accepting that an artificial obstacle is being created under the pretext of making the race harder, or even giving an advantage to a particular rider.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m not an environmental zealot, but there are still basic principles and fundamental rules to respect,&#8221; the enfuriated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,119101,101,56,54,55,49085],"class_list":["post-296655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-marc-madiot","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}