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Tour de France director rejects accusations of bias towards French riders

Christian Prudhomme ITA Tour UCI Matej Mohoric Paul Seixas Tadej Pogacar
Paul Seixas races during stage 15 of the Tour de France.
Matej Mohoric appeared to imply that the French rider Paul Seixas (pictured) had been given preferential treatment by the ITA. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, has rejected accusations of bias towards French riders and launched a staunch defence of the night-time drug tests that were carried out during this year’s race.

Speaking at the start of stage 18 in Voiron, Prudhomme insisted that the International Testing Agency’s (ITA) testing practices did not favour any riders.

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