FDJ-SUEZ haven’t denied latest stories that Tour de France champion Demi Vollering is near signing a multi-year contract settlement with the France-based Women’s WorldTour group.
CEO and supervisor Stephen Delcourt has advised Cyclingnews that whereas the group won’t touch upon such negotiations, the truth that the Tour de France champion is linked to his group confirms the power of the programme’s previous, current and future.
“The rumours that hyperlink Demi Vollering, final Tour de France Femmes winner, with FDJ-SUEZ solely affirm the viability of the group’ challenge carried out since 2006 and constructed on exhausting work and humility through the years,” the group’s press officer supplied Cyclingnews with a touch upon behalf of Delcourt on Monday.
“FDJ-SUEZ won’t remark any additional on rumours about any negotiation.”
It was lately reported in Algemeen Dagblad (AD.nl) that Vollering is at the moment in negotiations with the FDJ-SUEZ group and will see her racing with the group on a multi-year contract starting in 2025.
While a number of groups might vie for Vollering’s signature, the report means that FDJ-SUEZ might be the front-runner within the race to signal the highly effective Dutch champion.
Under UCI guidelines, transfers of riders on WorldTour groups or ProTeams for the following season should not permitted to be finalised till the official switch interval of August 1 to December 31.
There has been lots of media buzz round Vollering throughout the spring racing block after stories of a €1 million contract supply and her potential departure from SD Worx-Protime on the finish of 2024.
SD Worx sports activities supervisor Danny Stam confirmed the information earlier than the beginning of Dwars door Vlaanderen in Waregem to GCN in March.
Later, the group’s supervisor, Erwin Janssen, made public statements concerning the negotiation course of between the group and Vollering’s agent, revealing how he felt the contract negotiations with Vollering had damaged down.
Janssen gave particulars of the contract negotiations on the group’s pre-Tour of Flanders press occasion, revealing that Vollering had been given an ultimatum to a proposal. However, after a prolonged negotiation interval, her administration didn’t settle for, main them to imagine she would depart the group.
A possible transfer to FDJ-SUEZ could be a boon for the French outfit that has been focussed on the Tour de France Femmes and securing the yellow jersey on dwelling soil for the reason that occasion’s rebirth in 2022 and the group’s inception in 2006 as Vienne Futuroscope, modified to Poitou-Charentes.Futuroscope.86 in 2014, and FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope in 2017 and FDJ-SUEZ as of 2022.