The stubborn song of doping in cycling

When doping returns to cycling, after an astonishing race last week in Spain… Bertrand Dicale takes the opportunity to delve into French songs on this delicate subject.

“To set up the thing, you have to take things.” The issue of doping in cycling has rarely been summed up so well as with this lapidary description of the Tour de France in the song. Sloping ground by Alain Souchon in 2019.

“Gotta take some stuff,” and clearly a lot of cyclists had it, in this race near Alicante in Spain, the other weekend. 182 riders had started, but when the news spread through cell phones that the anti-doping agency inspectors were setting up at the finish, 130 cyclists gave up, and only 52 cycled to the end. . They alone had to face doping control. It must be believed that the others had had a timely bout of fatigue.

In the second episode of These songs that make the news broadcast this weekend, you hear excerpts from:

Alain Souchon, Sloping ground, 2019

Raymond Girard, You’re not doing well, 1947

Priolet, Road Champions, 1934

Kraftwerk, Electro Cardiogramm, 2003

Kraftwerk, Vitamin, 2003

Parabellum, Stadium Cracks, 1999

Audio Sound, The Ballad of Tom Simpson 2009

Jacques Goddet on anti-doping controls, 07/21/1968

The Wampas, Rimini, 2006

Kraftwerk, Vitamin, 2003

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