After a huge season with the team Marc Madiot, Groupama-FDJthe 22-year-old New Zealander Laurence Pithie signed up with the German team a few weeks ago Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe. The rider has proven himself this year on hilly classics and sprints. “Even if you told me at the start of the season that I would win a WorldTour race (at Great Ocean Road Race by Cadel Evans)that I would finish 7th in Paris-Roubaix or that I would wear the yellow jersey at Paris-Nice, I would have signed straight away”he declared to the media Wheeler. A year 2025 where Laurence Pithie intends to compete with the biggest, and in particular a certain Mathieu Van der Poel.
Video – Laurence Pithie wore the yellow jersey for Paris-Nice
“Groupama-FDJ? I struggled with certain aspects of the team.”
In this interview given to Wheelerthe New Zealander looks back on his experience at Groupama-FDJ and his ambitions for the 2025 season with his new team, Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe. “I would have liked to stay at Groupama-FDJ, but I struggled with certain aspects of the team. For example, the language barrier. By becoming leader this year, I realized that it was difficult to express myself in another language, joining an English-speaking team was probably a good choice for me and for my future. he declares.
“The most important classic? Paris-Roubaix.”
“When you're at a high level and your teammates around you are also at a high level, you're constantly pushing each other. It's not that I'm thinking about becoming a leader and pushing my way through the Belgium. I also like working for others. It's in Milan-Sanremo that it all starts for me when it comes to the great classics. And then there's Paris-Roubaix. a lottery, but in this At the moment, Van der Poel dominates the monuments and he is on the highest podium. I really want to compete with him. I know it's ambitious and I'm young, but you have to start somewhere.concludes Laurence Pithie.
