After two seasons as Ineos Grenadiers’ solely feminine rider, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is about to affix Visma-Lease a Bike in 2025 based on a report from WielerFlits.
The 12-time multi-discipline World Champion had already introduced that 2024 can be her last yr of mountain biking and that she was eyeing a return to the highway with the large objective of using the Tour de France Femmes.
“I do miss it, particularly now that we have now a Tour de France for girls,” Ferrand-Prévot advised Ineos Grenadiers teammate Geraint Thomas on his podcast again in October.
“I want to journey the Tour de France someday. Right now I’m very centered on the Paris Olympics, however why not get again to highway racing subsequent yr, or the yr after? I would love that.”
Her fundamental focus in 2024, and for her time at Ineos, has been the Paris Olympics after it has been one of many solely accolades to elude her throughout her illustrious profession. She’ll participate within the cross-country MTB occasion on July 28.
The departure of Ferrand-Prévot would seemingly sign the continuation of Ineos Grenadiers being one of many few males’s WorldTour groups to not have a ladies’s equal.
Ferrand-Prévot’s switch to Visma-Lease a Bike for 2025 would see her return to full highway competitors for the primary time since 2018, along with her last few seasons on Canyon-SRAM solely seeing her journey sporadically at French nationwide championships.
She’s been the highway World Champion prior to now throughout her most profitable 2014 season, the place she additionally received La Flèche Wallonne, Emakumeen Euskal Bira and have become French nationwide highway and ITT champion.
However, for the previous six seasons, her eyes have solely been centered on off-road competitors, throughout which era she has taken in eight extra MTB rainbow jerseys, another within the cyclocross area and have become the inaugural ladies’s gravel World Champion.
A transfer to Visma-Lease a Bike would see her reunited with former teammate and fellow multi-discipline star, Marianne Vos, after the pair have been each on Rabobank-Liv between 2012-2016.
Ferrand-Prévot would seemingly be part of Vos and younger star Fem van Empel in combining each cyclocross with highway for the Dutch outfit. Vos and Van Empel are two of solely 4 riders already signed on to Visma for 2025.
