The crowing of the “Rooster” resounded at the dawn of the new season and waking up on Friday morning for the Cofidis remaining in Europe was very sweet. On the other side of the planet, in Australia, Bryan Coquard had just raised his arms in the Victor Harbor sprint, at the end of the 4th stage of the Tour Down Under. An ideal way to forget for a while the more morose little music which had accompanied the northern team during the winter, while the 2024 exercise had not lived up to the objectives, far from it. Five meager victories over the whole year, a first success which had taken a long time to emerge, at the beginning of May, with the Giro stage won by Benjamin Thomas in Lucca, and the dissensions displayed during the Tour de France between Cédric Vasseur, the manager, and his two stage seekers, Bryan Coquard and Axel Zingle, who had not embellished the picture.
