Jean-Yves Le Gal, president of the Plouay Cycling Club, base of the Plouay Cycling Team, announced in a press release this Wednesday that the club will not apply for the N3 label in 2025. The reason given is the departure of the sports director, Rodolphe Henry for the ‘UCK Vannes Bretagne Sud that he learned “by social networks a week before the official period of transfers which began on October 1st. We have since been informed, through the same channel, over the days of the departure of many runners from our DN team“Faced with this unforeseen exodus, the club office preferred to give up on N3 for the next season but hopes to return to it.”We are not giving up on the high level and at the end of next season we will apply again for DN3“, adds the President.
SUPPORTING YOUNG HOPES
The Plouay Cycling Team finished 2nd in the Coupe de France N3 for its second season at this level. “We are fortunate to be able to rely on a network of serious and loyal partners committed to our project. Our consolidated cash flow in 2024 will allow us to have ambitions again“, specifies the press release. But he has not yet been able to obtain the financing to secure a job. “We know in particular that the demanding management of a team of this level requires a full-time person and therefore an employee. Our requests for funding for this job were never successful, structure too young and Olympic year budgets among other explanations…!“. To succeed Rodolphe Henry, Jean-Yves Le Gal called on Jérôme Beldent. There will indeed be a Non-National team in 2025 with “young hopefuls that we will support in order to allow them to evolve as best as possible“, adds the President. The club’s Juniors will be part of the Morbihan Finistère Sud mixed team.
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