Rasmussen’s monumental crack on the cycling world champion McNulty: “It almost makes me sick. It will be unfortunate to see him in the world champion’s jersey”

He Phoenix cyclist Brandon McNulty surprised all the favorites in the recent road test of the Montreal World Cycling Championships (Canada). Everyone, or most of the fans, were rubbing their hands to see a close fight between the theoretical great favorites for gold, such as Remco Evenepoel, Wout Van Aert, Isaac del Toro, Paul Seixas or Mathieu Van der Poelbut in the end it was he who captured all eyes.

When push came to shove, the American was the strongest of all the participants. He launched a devastating attack 33 kilometers from the finish line. He believed in him and no one could neutralize him, brilliantly proclaiming himself world champion.

Since he won the gold medal, Brandon He had to listen to comments such as that it couldn’t be that he was only 28 years old and even some jokes about his physical appearance, but the words of the former Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen They go further and we can say that they cross the line of bad taste and lack of education.

So, Rasmussenwho in January 2013 admitted to having doped to improve his performance for twelve years, was excluded from the Tour de France by his own team, the Rabobankin statements to ‘Viaplay’, he has gone too far by having these words with McNulty: “It almost disgusts me a little. It will be unfortunate to see him with the world champion jersey, being back in the UAE with his pockets full of water and staying behind when others are fighting to win. If he is lucky, they will make him the leader of the ranks in the Tour of Poland.”

Fourth in the Montreal World Cup time trial, McNultywhich has a contract with UAE Team Emirates Until the year 2030, it has a total of 23 wins. He was, as Rasmussen points out, winner of the Poland Tour in 2025, and already in the 2016 World Championship, in Doha, Qatar, He was proclaimed world junior time trial champion.