Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Friday October 4, 2024 at 8:47 p.m.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will not be at the Gravel Worlds, one meeting too many for the Olympic mountain bike champion.
The end of the season is difficult for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who is struggling to recover from her magnificent emotions from Paris 2024 where she finally won the Olympic gold she was chasing so much. Already out of contention for the medal at the MTB Worlds at the beginning of September, then behind during the Road Worlds last week (her new specialty, to which she will exclusively switch next season), “PFP” withdraws from the MTB Worlds. gravel in which she was to participate this weekend: “I have to give up. Physically and mentally, I’m not there.”
“I’m recovering, because I still dream so big”
Already world champion in 2022 in this specialty halfway between mountain biking and road, where Mathieu van der Poel will be the favorite among the men this weekend in Belgium (from Halle to Louvain), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot n It’s no secret: she continues to enjoy her “magnificent life”. “Following what I achieved this season, I am recovering for the next race, because I still dream so big.”
The one who was also world road champion ten years ago, in 2014, was unable to finish her world event in Zurich (on the road) last week. On Eurosport, she confided that she hoped to do better but it also allowed her to realize the time needed for the sensations to return, “it just makes me want to work more for the winter”. Adding a new, different specialty into this overloaded end-of-year calendar just became too much for “PFP”, who will begin this ultimate career next year under the Visma team jersey. With the objective of a victory in the Tour de France, displayed as soon as he conquered his title in Paris 2024: “I am keen to get back on the road. There was no longer any sense in continuing mountain biking.” And for gravel too, we will come back.
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