Mathieu Warnier, Media365, published on Thursday 08 May 2025 at 12:50 p.m.
After seeing his 2024 season was long disrupted by an injury, Victor Lafay was recently operated on with a knee and is expected to resume competition next August.
The physical seeds are linked and accumulate for Victor Lafay. Revealed under the colors of the Cofidis team in 2023 with in particular a victory full of panache during the 2nd stage of the Tour de France in the streets of Saint-Sébastien, the French runner saw a disturbed story with the Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale formation, which he joined at the start of the 2024 season. After seeing his start of exercise long disrupted by an injury to a knee Lyon had to wait until last July and the Tour of the Ain to find the competition and start under its new colors. He had then chained with the Tour de Burgos, the Vuelta then the Italian classics at the end of the season before concluding his program on the Tour de Guangxi. While his recovery was convincing with third place during the Classic Var, Victor Lafay quickly felt a knee.
Lafay suffered from “recurring knee pain”
A problem that has disabled him to the point of having to give up during the third stage of the Tour of the Basque Country after being seen in difficulty during the first two. Pain that prompted the Rhone runner to go through the Operation box earlier this week, as announced this Wednesday by the Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale team via a message published on social networks. “Victor Lafay presented recurrent knee pain, which required surgery,” announced the tricolor training. This was carried out successfully on Monday. “The 29-year-old runner will now have to” observe a one-month rest period, before being able to resume training “with a return to the competition of Ores-et-Déjà” planned for the month of August “. If this program is respected by Victor Lafay and if its physical form allows, participation in the 2025 edition of the Vuelta, which will start from Italy and the Turin region on August 23, could be envisaged.
