After transferring from Ineos-Grenadiers to Visma-Lease a Bike in 2025, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot confirmed off her new staff’s trademark yellow and black colors on New Year’s Day.
“Et bonjour 2025,” Ferrand-Prévot posted to Instagram on January 1 carrying the colors of her new staff for the primary time.
Ferrand-Prévot has centered on her off-road profession over the previous 5 seasons, however after claiming gold within the cross-country mountain bike occasion on the Paris Olympic Games in July, she indicated her need to return to street racing and to attempt to win the Tour de France Femmes.
It was formally introduced after the Olympics that she had signed a three-year contract with Visma-Lease a Bike.
Visma-Lease a Bike additionally unveiled their 2025 package on January 1 in an official press launch and on social media. The jersey stays true to the staff’s iconic yellow and black colors, preserving the total design unchanged.
Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard and Marianne Vos will lead the boys’s and girls’s groups, respectively, and have been additionally pictured carrying staff package, alongside some new teammates Ferrand-Prévot and Simon Yates.
“Staying true to our yellow and black. Embodying The Power of the Beehive,” the staff wrote on Instagram.
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Ferrand-Prévot’s resolution to retire from a glowing off-road profession, go away Ineos Grenadiers and return to street racing with Visma-Lease a Bike has been one of the crucial talked about transfers of the yr, along with her former Rabobank teammate Vos saying, “It’s improbable to have her within the staff once more.
“I’ve been racing along with her [in previous years], and it is fairly some time in the past. First of all, realizing that she was coming again to street biking was already thrilling, however to be subsequent to her within the staff can be nice,” Vos stated from the Tour de France Femmes in August.
Although Ferrand-Prévot hasn’t raced a full street season since 2018, outdoors of competing on the French Road Championships in 2019 and 2021, she can be a key rider to look at on the 2025 Women’s WorldTour.
The French rider made historical past within the 2014-2015 season on the age of 23 when she grew to become the primary bicycle owner to carry world titles within the three disciplines concurrently. She received the elite ladies’s street race world title in 2014 Ponferrada, the XCO cross-country world title in 2015 in Vallnord, and the cyclo-cross world title in 2015 in Tabor. Since then, she has amassed a complete of 15 elite world titles throughout street, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel.
Her intensive success and expertise in street racing will undoubtedly add to the staff’s total power alongside Vos, Fem van Empel and new signing Marion Bunel throughout the 2025 season.