Pauline Ferrand-Prévot: “My power data… I have the level”

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot returns to the road 100% in 2025 with Visma-Lease a Bike. Photo: Cor Vos

With Visma-Lease a Bike, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will make her 100% return to the road in 2025, after winning her Olympic title in mountain biking. She has now set the Tour de France Femmes among her major objectives for the coming years.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (32 years old) returns to road Cycling full time in 2025 with Visma-Lease a Bike. After winning the Olympic title in mountain biking this summer in Paris, the only one missing from her record, the Frenchwoman now wants to give 100% on the road. Since its cessation in 2018, women's cycling has changed a lot with the appearance of numerous races including the Tour de France Women which is one of its main objectives for the next three years.

“I'm 32, I don't have many years left. I realize I'm one of the old ones, it's weird. But I still want to perform at the highest level. I closed the mountain biking chapter. In 2025, I will strive to be the best possible to be able to win the Tour de France in the years to come,” declared Pauline Ferrand-Prévot during the team's first meeting Visma-Lease a Bike where she responded to the media.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot: “I have to relearn how to ride in a peloton”

“When I look at my power data, I have the level, assured Pauline Ferrabnd-Prévot. I have to relearn how to ride in a peloton and study the races. Visma Lease a Bike has already won the Tour with Jonas Vingegaard. So they know how to do it. I wanted a team capable of supporting me. I am also happy to find Dutch training. I directly felt a family spirit. And at the same time everything is very organized. » The Frenchwoman shares her life with Dylan van Baarlealso a member of the Dutch team, which confirmed the choice of the Rémoise. “But I made the decision alone. I spent 5 years at Rabobank and had the best years of my career there. »

Objective Tour de France Women for PFP

« I will be at the start, if I am selected« , a dit Pauline Ferrand-Prévot about the Tour de France Women 2025. And to add: “I obviously saw the course. I'm glad there's no timer. It will be easier for me. It's a good route for me with a good mix between short bumps and longer passes. I'm curious to do the reconnaissance to see what I need to work on to be at the top. It's more and more difficult to shine in different disciplines because the level is always higher in mountain biking or on the road. With the races, the altitude courses… the year is not long enough to do everything.”