Bahrain’s Victorious Tour of France team raided police for the first time this week on Thursday, a day before the tour’s big start in Denmark.
The team showed in a statement that the hotel rooms and cars of cyclists and staff in the Copenhagen suburbs had been searched by Danish officers, and “fully cooperated with all requests from the officers, and the search was completed within two hours. “”No parts were seized from the team.
Danish police acted at the request of French prosecutors, Copenhagen police spokesman Dannie Rise said in a statement, referring questions to French police.
The hotel’s manager, Jeroen Bishop, said Danish media police arrived shortly before 6 a. m. local time (0400 GMT), that there were uniformed and plainclothes officers, and that “everything happened quietly and calmly. “
Bahrain Victorious’s chief functionality officer, Vladimir Miholjevic, later told a press conference that no additional data was available at this time.
“We would like to have more main points about the research, just to perceive such an action,” Miholjevic said. “At the moment, the team is completely focused on the great race ahead of us and on achieving our sporting goals. “
On Monday, Bahrain Victorious riders were raided by police ahead of their departure for the Tour de France. The team said it believed the timing of the searches was “intended to deliberately damage the team’s reputation. “
It has been decided that Jack Haig and Damiano Caruso will direct Bahrain Victorious. The team also includes Jan Tratnik, Kamil Gradek, Fred Wright and Luis Leon Sanchez, as well as 2021 level winners Matej Mohorič and Dylan Teuns.
The team was also raided by French police at last year’s Tour as part of a doping investigation. None of that came out.
The Tour kicks off in Copenhagen on Friday with an individual time trial and two other levels in Denmark, as well as crossing the Great Belt Bridge connecting the island of Zeeland, where Copenhagen is located, and the central island of Funen. The level can potentially be very windy.
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