Asked about the tackle that his colleague Thomas Voeckler had addressed to him at the start of the Tour de France, the sports journalist Alexandre Pasteur assured Wednesday at the microphone of Philippe Vandel that "the event", spotted with humor by our humorist Bertrand Chameroy, did not no trace left in the relationship between the two men.
INTERVIEW
"Is the atmosphere good in the team following the Tour de France?"
Philippe Vandel's question to sports journalist Alexandre Pasteur, guest of
Culture Médias on
Wednesday
,
may seem trivial.
However, it is justified in view of the sequence, pointed out with humor by our columnist Bertrand Chameroy, during which his colleague, the former runner Thomas Voeckler, defined one of his questions as a "stupid question", under the laughter of the rest of the team.
Alexandre Pasteur reacts to this moment of "tension" at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Thomas Voeckler "joker and spoiler"
The journalist assures that the controversial sequence is only an epiphenomenon.
"Each week, the Tour de France is 110 hours on the air, 130 if I add
Vélo Club
. And you, you retain the 10 seconds of tension", he says.
According to the sports journalist, relations between him and Thomas Voeckler are very good.
"There was no need for an explanation, me too that made me laugh. We quickly moved on. I stiffened a little in my seat, he admits. But it didn't. not last more than 10 seconds. "
Alexandre Pasteur did not react to this sequence, where in
Vélo Club
his colleague Franck Ferrand said about him "He did not take it well at all, he almost left the plateau".
Alexandre Pasteur wants to be reassuring about the internal atmosphere.
He finally explains that "If you watch the Tour, you can see that the atmosphere is good and that Thomas has kept his playful and messy side on the bike. Everything is going very well, we are having a good time and it is essential."