While he has made thunderous debuts for two seasons, Lenny Martinez can now appear as the best hope of French Cycling. And he has no shortage of ambitions at a time when he is changing teams, leaving Groupama-FDJ to join one of the armadas of the world peloton, Bahrain Victorious.
At the end of the contract with the Groupama-FDJ, Lenny Martinez engaged as planned with the Bahrain Victorious from January 2025. Asked by cyclismactu.netthe little French climber does not hide the fact that he hopes to be able to win the Tour de France in the coming years: “ Is the objective to win the Tour? Yes. I know it might sound like arrogant or something, but I think every rider dreams of winning the Tour, it’s mine too. I’m not saying I could do it, but it’s my dream. The biggest goal of my career would be to win the Tour but from there to doing that, I think I’m still far away. But it always stays in the back of my mind ».
“I think I’m still far from it, but it remains in the back of my mind”
As it stands, Lenny Martinez had a more than mixed experience on the Grande Boucle, where for his first participation last summer, he went through the event like a ghost, far from the best: “ Honestly, I don’t really know what happened, we’re also trying to find out with the team. It came back later, but I fell before the Italian classics. It’s a shame because I was really getting back to a very, very good level, I felt really good in training. We just left time and took a lot of rest after the Tour, there was perhaps a little fatigue before the Tour and after the Tour, it got worse and it’s not so easy to come back to its previous level. Afterwards, I knew it was going to come back given the level I had at the start of the season… It wasn’t a level that I was never going to find again. But hey, I did the Tour. If in the next few years I have to take part in it, I will have already done it once so I know a little about how it goes. I will also know the enthusiasm there is for this race. Afterwards, of course I would have liked to shine more on the Tour, it’s a bit of a shame but in the end, I don’t really regret my choice ».
“If I have the level to do it in 2025…”
Could he be tempted to try his luck in the summer of 2025? Response from the person concerned at the microphone of cyclismactu.net : “(Hesitation) If I have the level to do it and I feel that I can perform well, yes, but if that is not the case, I would prefer to go to the other Grand Tours. The programs are never 100% defined, so we will have to see my level at this time of the season ».
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