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00:14I don't know if it's a golden age as ever but it's one of the golden age of cycling
00:19because it's true that we have wonderful races, wonderful athletes, riders
00:24and they always want to fight in a way and they take cycling as a game
00:33so it's clearly less boring than it was at some points and very exciting
00:38so yes it's nice and I think cycling is becoming more and more popular
00:44the TV audiences are high and yes that's really a golden age for cycling
00:50you know I think he's one of these leaders who will be part of the history of cycling
01:01if you speak with Eddie Merckx or Bernard Hainaut
01:05for them Pogacar is one of them
01:09and they have a lot of respect for what he's doing
01:13so I think if you compare Merckx and Pogacar the same age
01:17they are not far away one from another
01:20so yes we can in a way compare Pogacar to Merckx
01:24it will be in Rwanda
01:26we never have doubts that it will be in Rwanda
01:30and that will be in Rwanda
01:32very happy to see so that over the last days or weeks
01:36they've been able to find an agreement in between Rwanda and IRDC
01:42under the leadership and umbrella of United States of America
01:46and then they sign a kind of first document to sign a peace agreement
01:53and that's great so the situation is becoming calm now
02:00and it will be a huge huge success
02:03so I'm very pleased to see that the pressure is decreasing
02:07and that it will be a huge success
02:09and for the first edition in Africa
02:13that was quite important for us
02:15we expect to have really a lot of people along the route
02:19probably the most overcrowded World Championship ever
02:23that's a big issue for all of us
02:27for the riders first
02:29because that their job
02:30it's very stressful to race today
02:32to be with all these obstacles
02:34for the teams of course
02:36because you don't want to endanger your employees in a way
02:40for the organizers
02:41because you don't organize a race
02:43to have incidents or accidents
02:45and for the UCI
02:47because our mission is to ensure that it's safe
02:49so with that said
02:51I have to say that
02:54we are working together
02:56and we create it safer
02:58in order to bring all the families
03:00not to throw the hot potatoes from one to another
03:03but let's face it together
03:05one of the big difficulties that we have today
03:08is the roads are becoming more friendly
03:13for pedestrians or cyclists
03:15but not for cycling competition
03:17it's a quite long debate
03:19and you know my personal feeling is that we don't need radio in a race
03:28I know some stakeholders are not in agreement with this
03:31some riders are in favor
03:33some riders are against
03:34team managers are more in favor
03:36the fans are completely against
03:38so it's not so easy
03:40but you have races where you don't have earpieces
03:43like UCI World Championships
03:45one epic games
03:46and you have less crashes
03:48so it's not true to say that
03:52with earpieces it's more safe
03:54you know it's forbidden to have earpieces
03:57when you drive a car
03:59because it can disturb you from being
04:03from your attention to drive your car
04:06so I believe it's a bit the same
04:08with that said
04:09it has to be also with the UCI rules
04:13and you have to also respect the existing races
04:18so how we can bring a new economic model
04:23how we can enlarge our revenues
04:25without also only giving opportunities to races
04:31that will be part of one cycling
04:33instead of races not part necessarily of one cycling
04:38we have to be careful
04:40and not to give more advantage to some races
04:43just because they could be part of one cycling
04:46you know
04:48Paris-Roubaix will still be Paris-Roubaix
04:51whether it's a one cycling race or not
04:56and it will be more important
04:58than the Grand Prix de Plouet
05:00we'll just take two races in France
05:02not to make any problem in Spain
05:04but I think we are the sport of anti-doping
05:07clearly we are the leading international federation
05:10but we have to stay awake
05:12because this fight will never end
05:15we will always have to fight
05:17why? because we have new substances
05:19a new method
05:21so we have to work with laboratories
05:24and more specifically with the ITA
05:26so we invest a lot
05:28close to 10 million Swiss francs
05:29which is close to 10 million euros
05:31it's huge
05:32and I will always say that credibility has no price
05:37but it has a cost for us
05:39the water must also invest more in the research
05:43because we collect all the samples
05:46we work with police and so on
05:47but at the end
05:48it's not our job to make the analysis
05:51the analysis are made by laboratories
05:54that receive a certification
05:56from the World Anti-doping Agency
05:58and
