Christian Prudhomme "deplores these months of waiting" on the Froome case

Aimed at an abnormal salbutamol check during the Tour of Spain in September 2017, Christopher Froome was cleared by the International Cycling Union (UCI). Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, regrets that it took so long to finally know, Monday, July 2, the decision, less than a week before the start of the race, July 7. [19659005WhatwasyourfirstimpressionoftheannouncementoftheUCI'sdecision?

I kept saying that we needed a response from an independent sports authority since mid-December 2017 [19659007]. I would have preferred that this announcement arrives earlier, it is obvious. On behalf of the Tour de France, but also as president of the badociation organizers of races, I said for more than six months that we needed a quick response, since all the races in which Chris Froome participated could suffer, not knowing if the result would count. It was still a problem.

The President of the UCI, David Lappartient, first said: "There will be no answer [concernant le cas Froome] before the Giro [du 4 au 27 mai]. Then, at the beginning of June, he gave an interview to Parisien in which he clearly announced that there would be no decision from here to the Tour. We therefore decided, three weeks ago, to make use of Article 29 of the Rules of the Tour de France [accordingtowhich "ASO expressly reserves the right to refuse participation in – or to exclude of – the event, a team or one of its members, whose presence would be likely to damage the image or the reputation of ASO or the test "] . We made it known to Chris Froome, his team and the UCI.

Why not have communicated, …