False alarm at Cofidis hotel. Boyer detained.

//False alarm at Cofidis hotel. Boyer detained.

False alarm at Cofidis hotel. Boyer detained.

 

Boyer still angry.

 

Initial reports that French gendarmes had searched the Cofidis hotel and detained Rémy Di Grégorio have proven false.

While police were summoned to the team hotel in Bourg-en-Bresse, the apparent cause was the violent behavior of recently fired team manager Eric Boyer. According to several witnesses Boyer confronted a number of Cofidis riders and had to be forcibly restrained.

“It was a moment of chaos,” said Pierre Aloutte, manager of the Coq Malain hotel. “He was shouting and making threats and throwing around their nice clean bib shorts. It was not amusing for our other guests.”

Team management had fired Boyer just two weeks ago for lack of race results and his exaggerated French behavior. “He was smoking too many cigarettes and talking philosophy too much,” said Francois Migraine, a spokesman for the team sponsor. “Instead of motivating the riders, he wanted to discuss existentialism, Sarte, Gide, Camus and Andre Breton. This is no way to win races.”

The gendarmes managed to coax Boyer to leave the hotel with the promise of a spirited discussion of Marcel Proust’s A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu at the gendarmerie.  “His eyes lit up and suddenly there was no problem,” said officer Rene Longchamps. “In truth, we had a fabulous conversation about the elasticity of our childhood memories and the search of identity. Perhaps he was not a good DS, but Boyer impressed us with his literary savor faire.”

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  1. dennis July 10, 2012 at 2:36 pm - Reply

    It’s always great when I come here and find a story that is better than whatever really happened. Lil’ Kim training Andy Schleck, Maxime Monfort’s stirring speech as he assumes team leadership, and this story have all become for me the official version of events, as they are more beautiful and what /should/ have happened.

    • walshworld July 10, 2012 at 4:49 pm - Reply

      Dennis, thank you for that beautiful and brilliant compliment. You actually just helped me get a clearer understanding of what I’m trying to do at Twisted Spoke and keep it different from even the other funny cycling blogs. The “official version of events, as they are more beautiful and what should ahve happened” is a perfect encapsulation. Except for my diatribes against Pat McQuaid I try never to be mean-spirited or too cynical — just to put an entertaining twist on a wild group of characters and crazy events in cycling. Thanks again. I’ll keep them coming. Matt

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