The Vuelta female, created in 2015, started on Sunday May 4 in Barcelona to end on May 10 at the Alto Cotobello, in the Asturias (northern Spain). The Frenchwoman Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Olympic mountain bike champion in Paris 2024, has been playing her first stage race since her return on the road.
The success of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot during the fifth edition of the version Paris-Roubaix womenby winning with a minute ahead of the Italian Laetizia Borghesi and the Dutch Lorena Wiebes, gave a new spotlight on female cycling in France.
At 33, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Olympic mountain bike champion During Paris 2024, world cyclo-cross champion in 2015 and on the road in 2014, made her return to bitumen this season after a long parenthesis of seven years devoted to all-terrain bikes.
« I admire her, I have been looking at her since I was little »
The Frenchwoman of the Visma-Lease A Bike team is not mystery of her ambitions since she intends to win the Tour de France women “ In the next two-three years ». This week, she therefore takes her bearings on the Tour of Spain, directly after her campaign of extremely rich classics.
In 2014, she had already shown that she could shine in stages races with second place on the Tour of Italy.
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