After Thibaut Pinot, another French runner wonders about the infiltrations suffered by the winner of Roland-Garros.
In an interview given to The Team , the French cyclist (Cofidis) wonders in turn about the high-dose infiltrations suffered by Rafael Nadal in order to endure the pain in his left foot to win Roland-Garros. “What Nadal did would have been impossible on the bike, and I find that normal. If we are sick or injured, we don’t run, we don’t compete, that seems like common sense to me. For several reasons. First of all, for the health of the athletes. In the long term I’m not sure it will do Nadal’s ankle any good. And in addition, drugs and even more infiltrations do not only have a healing effect, it can certainly have effects on performance or be diverted to improve performance, so it seems very limited to me“says Guillaume Martin, 14e of the last Tour of Italy, joining his compatriot Thibaut Pinot.
“There are differences in regulations but also differences in treatment, image between sportscontinues the Frenchman. If a cyclist does the same thing, it’s already forbidden, but even if it weren’t, everyone would fall on him calling him doped because there is such a cultural background, such shots attached to the bike. While people praise Nadal for being able to go this far in pain…»
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