Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Tuesday October 8, 2024 at 11:19 p.m.
Rémi Cavagna, after just one year at Movistar, should terminate his contract to join Groupama-FDJ, according to the Spanish daily AS.
If Julian Alaphilippe, in advanced contacts with TotalEnergies, finally opted for the Swiss of Tudor, another French rider should evolve for the first time under the colors of a French team next year. Rémi Cavagna, his former teammate at Quick-Step, has decided to leave Movistar after just one season, while he has two years left on his contract, to join Groupama-FDJ, reports the Spanish daily AS.
“I didn’t sign for this”
Very ambitious upon his arrival in the Iberian team, the “TGV de Clermont” quickly became disillusioned. By first seeing his start-of-season program completely turned upside down. “Obviously, there was a bit of disappointment because I was considering something else. After a month, you can’t change a runner’s program when you hadn’t signed up for it,” said he told L’Equipe in June. Cavagna also mentioned the language barrier: “I have progressed well in Spanish, I took lessons, I put in the work and I understand almost everything but when I want to express myself a little, I want to impose myself, I’m limited, it’s a bit crap to integrate The Spanish are a bit together, everything is in Spanish on the radio and it’s complicated during important moments in the race. It’s a little blurry.”
A lot of vagueness and difficulties therefore for the Auvergne, and few results in the end, since it will not have achieved any Top 10 during this (unique?) Spanish season, and experienced a real “massive blow” with the he announced, to his great astonishment, of his non-selection for the Tour de France. At 29 years old, the double 2021 French champion, doubly crowned in the time trial (2020 and 2023), could have the opportunity to relaunch under the rule of Marc Madiot, the boss of Groupama-FDJ.
