French GC rider Juliette Labous is swapping DSM-Firmenich PostNL for FDJ-Suez after eight years with the Dutch squad.
The 25-year-old Frenchwoman was confirmed as FDJ’s second new signing for 2025, becoming a member of 18-year-old tremendous expertise Célia Gery on the French outfit for subsequent season. Labous has signed a deal till 2027 and can experience one in all her ultimate races for DSM on the upcoming Tour de France Femmes, which stars on Monday, August 12.
Labous is without doubt one of the most constant climbers in ladies’s biking, with a powerful time trial to again it up, proven just lately with fourth within the Paris Olympics ITT. She’s managed top-five outcomes total on the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia Women and Vuelta Femenina prior to now three seasons and can deliver the French nationwide champion’s jersey to FDJ-Suez in 2024 having received it for the second time in June.
“I’m very blissful and proud to affix the staff in 2025. FDJ-Suez is a staff in fixed development that can have the ability to supply me the absolute best surroundings to intention for the very best performances,” mentioned Labous.
“I will likely be eager to make the staff shine by bringing the expertise of my first eight skilled years. I’m trying ahead to beginning this new journey that can open a brand new chapter in my profession.”
Her arrival signifies that FDJ-Suez could have the present two highest-ranked French riders in Labous and fellow climbing expertise Evita Muzic, who is without doubt one of the few riders to beat Demi Vollering in an uphill end in recent times.
Team Manager Stephen Delcourt sees the transfer as a giant a part of his and the staff’s imaginative and prescient for the long run – to have the ability to compete with the most important groups in ladies’s biking, SD Worx-Protime and Lidl-Trek for instance.
“It is with immense delight and pleasure that we welcome Juliette into the FDJ-Suez household. French champion and high 5 within the final two Tours de France, Juliette is a exceptional athlete and, undeniably, the most effective climbers within the skilled peloton,” mentioned Delcourt.
“We are additionally honored by the arrogance that Juliette locations in our undertaking and our imaginative and prescient. Her arrival is yet one more step in direction of the belief of our sporting ambitions.”
Alongside Labous, the French squad has been closely rumoured because the vacation spot for defending Tour de France Femmes champion Vollering, nonetheless, no actions on that entrance have been made for the reason that switch window opened on August 1.
They did affirm {that a} signing similar to Vollering would even be in keeping with their pursuit of an even bigger undertaking that they’ve been constructing since their inception in 2006, however no official bulletins have but been made on the Dutchwoman’s future.