While the American runner Matteo Jorgenson was thwarted by a wasp sting in the furnace of the ninth stage of the Tour de Francelast Sunday, July 9, this setback is far from being the first for the athlete. The proof, on the occasion of an interview granted to Release this Wednesday, July 12, 2023, the latter remembered one of his most memorable misadventures on the race Paris-Roubaixin 2021.
A challenge that the young man of 24 years has struggled to meet. The reason ? During this famous race, Matteo Jorgenson unfortunately ingested feces before falling ill… “With the rain on the cobblestones, these little roads between the fields, the earth was everywhere. You pedal with your mouth open, then you eat whatever comes [notamment les projections des roues arrières des autres coureurs, N.D.L.R.] », he said in the preamble.
And to add: “I was unlucky, I ingested some animal shit. My body immediately wanted to reject the bacteria. I had to stop several times during the race. I had a horrible week afterwards. I have never been so sick in my life. There was a doctor who lived in my residence, I came down one night, at 1 am or so, I knocked on the door. She gave me antibiotics.
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Matteo Jorgenson isn’t the only one who accidentally swallowed ‘shit’
During this same interview, Matteo Jorgenson clarified to our colleagues that he was far from the only runner to have had this bad experience during a race. “They didn’t talk about it in the media but other riders contacted me afterwards to tell me that the same thing had happened to them. There were two on this Roubaix, but others told me they experienced the same thing in other races”… The vagaries of the cycling profession that no one had probably imagined…
LZ