‘Tell us what we are doing wrong, or maybe stop now and apologise’ - Matej Mohorič says raids impacted his team at Tour de France

‘Maybe come and see how hard we work at the training camps’ says the Slovenian in response to investigation into Bahrain Victorious

Matej Mohoric
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Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) has said that the police raids on his Bahrain Victorious team have had a negative impact on their opening week performance. 

Authorities began investigating the squad at the 2021 Tour de France when, on a rest day in Pau, they raided the team's hotel. Mohorič said at the time that it had made him feel "like a drug dealer".

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.