old doubts

The old doubts

Le Monde

A fluid mechanics engineer, Frédéric Portoleau has been analyzing runners' performance for a long time.

Le Monde

"Pogacar confirmed his very high level and he also gained in regularity", he

In regularity, but not only.

On this edition, the specialist isolates two performances - "the most incredible",

the time trial and the ascent of the Pyrenean pass of Peyresourde, where the Slovenian erased by 47 seconds the record set in 2003 by the Kazakh Alexandre Vinokourov (who will be excluded from the Tour in 2007 for doping).

Faced with those who explain this weather by favorable conditions - wind in the back -, the scientist remains perplexed: "I looked at the weather forecast, I do not completely agree."

if Pogacar displays a performance slightly higher than the others, that of its immediate pursuers is also far from negligible: the first seven manage to maintain a high level of performance from the first to the last week, it is striking.

" if the doubt is on the Slovenes, it must also be on those who are third, fourth, fifth, etc ... ", abounds the former rider Christophe Riblon

Le Monde

What does nationality matter when the performances are out of place?

"In terms of speed of climb, we saw things that were not possible for some. I think we have gone a step further,"

said the former rider Stéphane Heulot in the columns of

Ouest France.

Le Figaro

the French team Arkea-Samsic, that of Colombian Nairo Quintana, is in the eye of the storm with an investigation opened by the public health pole of the prosecution from Marseille and two police custody last night.

Investigation into suspicion of doping.

Le Parisien

a doctor collaborating with Arkea-Samsic and the Spanish physiotherapist of Colombian leader Nairo Quintana are involved.

The general manager of the Breton team, Emmanuel Hubert, clarified in the evening that the accused were not employees of the team.

looks

Should we believe in Pogacar?

The story of the Slovenian, winner of the event for his first participation at 22, seems beautiful.

But since Saturday, many have expressed doubts.

Running, stationary

Southwest

A breakdown of ideas, a lack of incarnation, catastrophic electoral results, divisions within a parliamentary group which is melting like snow in the sun.

The only thing that floats in this landscape is an Emmanuel Macron with polls that are certainly not very impressive but that Sarkozy or Hollande would have dreamed of at the same stage of their five-year term, and whose re-election remains a very plausible hypothesis.

La Charente Libre

Pierre Person n ° 2 of the movement resigns to,

" return to the base "and cause an" electroshock "in an

amorphous "

reduced to" copy- paste government messages ".

The lack of notoriety of the person concerned could have reduced his brilliance to a glitch without a future.

This is not the case,

as the observation of this early "walker" reveals the persistent blues of a majority party disoriented by the ukases, dissent and recently the deliberately right-wing structure of the new executive

Michael Lonsdale, secret monster

Liberation

The actor with the suave phrasing, arrived by chance in the trade, unclassifiable, was multi-hats, going from Duras to James Bond, from Claude Régy to Spielberg.

The most mystical of actors

Le Figaro

His hieratic presence and his ineffective diction have enabled him to encompass with the same accuracy characters as different as a sadistic criminal in James Bond or a Cistercian monk in

We remember his tall, slightly arched silhouette

Le Monde

planted like a question mark, his face with plunging jowls, but above all, perhaps, his sinuous and sizzling voice, infinitely supple and able to fly in thunderous bursts.