In our organization’s allied sports family, cycling has its place. It is promoted in campaigns against alcohol and is an integral part of the lifestyle of some octogenarians. Salting soup, on the other hand, moves away from the spirit of sport and healthy living to the limbo of doping.
Report on the maintenance of the fitness of cycling riders Gilbert BAUVIN, François Mhaé, André Darrigade and Jacques Anquetil. Their secret? Intensive training and not a drop of alcohol!
With enthusiasm, an eighty-year-old cyclist praises the incomparable virtues of cycling in relation to walking, and he energetically concludes: "Ride a bike if you want a dull night watch".
Gilles DELION, former cyclist, speaks publicly about doping at the EPO. "We know that the riders betray themselves by taking aspirin in the evening, to liquefy the blood and try not to die during the night".
To the question what does "salt the soup?" (doping in cycling language) Albert Bouvet, Bernard Viot, Jacques Anquetil, and others all seem embarrassed to answer. When one says, "This is a question that has been around for quite some time...it can be considered a professional secret."