Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale have revealed a refreshed race package for 2025, a brand new Van Rysel aerodynamic race bike and race clothes in addition to a rejuvenated roster that features teenage French skills Paul Seixas and Léo Bisiaux and 2023 Junior time trial world champion Oscar Chamberlain of Australia.
Luke Rowe has joined Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale after ending his racing profession with Ineos Grenadiers, and he’ll work with Grand Tour chief Felix Gall, sprinter Sam Bennett, Benoît Cosnefroy, Victor Lafay and particularly the Classics riders that features street captain Oliver Naesen.
New signings embody Swiss time trialist Stefan Bissegger and 2023 Underneath-23 Giro d’Italia winner Johannes Staune-Mittet. The WorldTour staff additionally contains French nationwide champion Paul Lapeira, Aurélien Paret-Peintre and trusted Australian dash lead-out man Callum Scotson.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale loved a vastly profitable 2024 after the arrival of Decathlon and their Van Rysel bikes. The staff received 30 races, with Ben O’Connor ending fourth general on the Giro d’Italia after which second on the Vuelta a España, after two weeks within the chief’s purple jersey. The Western Australia moved to Jayco AlUla for 2025 however Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale hopes to shortly develop their younger skills.
Decathlon have prolonged their hyperlinks to the staff, creating a brand new aero street bike, the race clothes and off-race informal clothes. The staff refreshed their blue and inexperienced racing colors, and added a contact of inexperienced to the bikes.
“2025 might be a yr of affirmation and consolidation of our strategic plan,” staff Supervisor Dominique Serieys mentioned throughout a presentation held in Decathlon’s headquarters close to Lille in northern France.
“We need to develop into one of many world’s prime groups because of the total help of companions Decathlon, AG2R La Mondiale, Van Rysel and others. We imagine we will with collectively to search out the following marginal positive factors to guide us to our subsequent success.
“We have now to be prepared for 2025 in the very best method. We have already reformed our employees and made it a extra worldwide organisation. We have determined two issues: We have prolonged the contract of essential riders, and we have welcomed 5 new riders from the Subsequent Gen staff. With our riders and gear we goal for a steadiness between expertise and youth, that is a part of our DNA.”
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale have a Junior staff, a improvement staff and the WorldTour staff. They don’t have a girls’s staff. The 2025 junior squad contains Nice Britain’s Gus and Evander Wishart and the USA’s Braden Reitz, who was second within the US Junior street race championships behind Ashlin Barry.
The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale improvement staff contains Australia’s Matthew Greenwood and a number of latest teenage expertise.
