Marc Madiot: Pinot saved FDJ's season

Marc Madiot has described his FDJ team's performance during 2015 as "average" and admitted that the French team only achieved that level because "they were saved to a large degree by Thibaut Pinot". The squad's total of 15 victories was its worst tally since 2001 and little more than half of the 28 successes taken the year before.

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