Tour de France 2021 - Bahrain Victorious confirm team hotel raided by French Police

ByCoral Barry

Updated 15/07/2021 at 10:05 GMT

French police have raided Bahrain Victorious' team hotel at the Tour de France. Police searched the team's base on Wednesday evening with Milan Erzen confirming the raid. “Nothing special, we have a visit from the police, they ask for riders training files, they check bus and that’s it," he said about the visit from police.

Police have raided Bahrain Victorious at the Tour de France on Wednesday evening.

Riders and staff hotels were also searched by police, but no arrests were made.

Bahrain Victorious team boss Milan Erzen confirmed the raid took place and said they were not told why the base had been searched.

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“Nothing special, we have a visit from the police, they ask for riders training files, they check bus and that’s it," he told Cyclingnews.

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“They disturb riders for one hour and at the end, they said thank you. They didn’t tell us what’s the reason of visit, but we will found this out today through lawyers.”

Pello Bilbao is Bahrain Victorious’ highest placed rider at the Tour de France in tenth place.

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Jack Haig’s exit following a Stage 3 crash led to a shake-up of strategy for Bahrain Victorious, but the team has picked up two stage wins since then, with Matej Mohoric winning Stage 7 and Dylan Teuns taking Stage 8.

Tadej Pogacar kept hold of the yellow jersey after winning Stage 17 on Col du Portet and appears all but set to win his second successive Tour de France.

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Jonas Vingegaard and Richard Carapaz occupied the rest of the podium, but Pogacar’s lead is now over five and a half minutes.

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The 22-year-old Team Emirates rider was in superb form at Stage 17 and the next race is the final day in the mountains for the riders.

Green jersey holder Mark Cavendish will be looking to keep hold of his lead ahead of the gruelling climbs in the Pyrenees.

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