David Gaudu and Guillaume Martin, the flagship recruit of the Groupama-FDJ team, will be co-leaders in the 2024 Tour de France, the first also competing in the Giro and the second in the Vuelta, the French team announced on Wednesday.
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There will be two leaders in the Groupama-FDJ formation during the 2025 Tour de France, after the arrival of Norman Guillaume Martin alongside Breton David Gaudu.
“Frankly, I have no apprehensions about their cohabitation. I think we have what it takes to do great things“. This is what Marc Madiot, the boss of the Grpupama-FDJ team declared this Wednesday, during the presentation of the 2025 season.
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A very regular general classification rider, Guillaume Martin, at 31 years old and after five seasons with Cofidis, “a return to basics” in a team he had attended in 2014 as an intern.
“I’m very happy, because we missed each other ten years ago, largely my fault“, underlined Madiot. “We made a choice, we were wrong. There was something to be purged between us, we are going to make up for lost time.”
The Norman, who has nine Top 15s in twelve participations in a Grand Tour, is delighted to find the team. “The story is funny to think that ten years later, the circle has somehow come full circle”he told AFP.
“I had been at Cofidis for five years and I felt like I was getting into a routine”added Guillaume Martin, “very happy to join” David Gaudu.
The Breton David Gaudu, fourth in the Tour de France in 2022 and sixth in the Vuelta last September at the conclusion of an otherwise complicated 2024 season, says he “died of starvation” for next year.
“I had a great winter and I’m going to discover lots of places where I’ve never set my wheels before”underlines the climber.
Debut at the Tour of Oman in February, the Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, and the Giro where he will aim “a Top 5” in May: Gaudu’s program is full of new features, which “boosts enormously”.
He will then continue on to the Tour de France where he will perhaps have “less fresh than usual” but, as a result, “the arrival of Guillaume will do good”.
“I could have taken it badly but not at all. It also allows me to relieve the pressure of the Tour” he concluded.
