When David Gaudu gets loose on Arnaud Démare: “He knows that I don’t want him at the Tour, I’ve already told him”

Should David Gaudu, by his apology, authenticate a screenshot that was circulating on Twitter this Thursday morning? While the exchanges he had had on Discord, a social discussion network, leaked, the leader of Groupama-FDJ took the side of contrition with a tweet precisely containing the screenshots, before deleting this second part. “The problems that a team may encounter should have remained internal, I apologize to the team and to Arnaud.” It was therefore he who had very harsh words towards Arnaud Démare, bringing to light their enmity and assuring that he did not want his presence at the Tour.

Screenshots of a Discord server, where anyone can create “channels” of private discussions, animated Twitter this Thursday morning. David Gaudu, fourth in the last Tour de France, talks about Arnaud Démare, saying to begin with that he would have voluntarily tried to bring him down during a shoot recently. A serious accusation. The rest revolves around the Tour de France where his team, Groupama-FDJ, wants to take Arnaud Démare, absent in 2022 when everyone was serving David Gaudu’s podium objective.

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The Breton claims to campaign, to be “on crusade” he said so that Marc Madiot and the staff do not include Arnaud Démare in the eight for the Tour de France. Understand that he wants a team in his hand to aim for the podium once again after a Tour 2022 crossed as in a dream, or almost. And when one of his interlocutors confides to him that these exchanges could leak, Gaudu does not disassemble: “If he wants me to tell him to his face, I can very well. I am not afraid of him. He knows that I don’t want the Tour, I already told him“. While the 2022 adventure on the Grande Boucle resembled that of a group of friends, good luck to Groupama-FDJ for it to be the same in 2023.

A little later in the morning, Marc Madiot reacted to West France. “They’re not friends, okay, but I’m not asking riders to be friends, but to know how to work togetherhe said. And I have enough experience to know that it’s not necessarily those with whom you are the friendliest that you work best…“While David Gaudu and Arnaud Démare will be together in Paris-Nice, the manager of Groupama-FDJ thinks that things will be back to normal, pleading a”kid bullshit“.

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