After transferring from Ineos-Grenadiers to Visma-Lease a Bike in 2025, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot confirmed off her new workforce’s trademark yellow and black colors on New 12 months’s Day.
“Et bonjour 2025,” Ferrand-Prévot posted to Instagram on January 1 carrying the colors of her new workforce for the primary time.
Ferrand-Prévot has centered on her off-road profession over the previous 5 seasons, however after claiming gold within the cross-country mountain bike occasion on the Paris Olympic Video games in July, she indicated her need to return to highway racing and to attempt to win the Tour de France Femmes.
It was formally introduced after the Olympics that she had signed a three-year contract with Visma-Lease a Bike.
Visma-Lease a Bike additionally unveiled their 2025 equipment on January 1 in an official press launch and on social media. The jersey stays true to the workforce’s iconic yellow and black colors, conserving the total design unchanged.
Wout van Aert, Jonas Vingegaard and Marianne Vos will lead the lads’s and girls’s groups, respectively, and had been additionally pictured carrying the 2025 workforce equipment, alongside some new teammates Ferrand-Prévot and Simon Yates.
“Staying true to our yellow and black. Embodying The Energy of the Beehive,” the workforce wrote on Instagram.
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Ferrand-Prévot’s choice to retire from a glowing off-road profession, depart Ineos Grenadiers and return to highway racing with Visma-Lease a Bike has been probably the most talked about transfers of the 12 months, along with her former Rabobank teammate Vos saying, “It is incredible to have her within the workforce once more.
“I have been racing along with her [in previous years], and it is fairly some time in the past. To start with, realizing that she was coming again to highway biking was already thrilling, however to be subsequent to her within the workforce will likely be nice,” Vos stated from the Tour de France Femmes in August.
Though Ferrand-Prévot hasn’t raced a full highway season since 2018, outdoors of competing on the French Highway Championships in 2019 and 2021, she will likely be a key rider to observe on the 2025 Girls’s WorldTour.
The French rider made historical past within the 2014-2015 season on the age of 23 when she grew to become the primary bicycle owner to carry world titles within the three disciplines concurrently. She gained the elite ladies’s highway race world title in 2014 Ponferrada, the XCO cross-country world title in 2015 in Vallnord, and the cyclo-cross world title in 2015 in Tabor. Since then, she has amassed a complete of 15 elite world titles throughout highway, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel.
Her in depth success and expertise in highway racing will undoubtedly add to the workforce’s general power alongside Vos, Fem van Empel and new signing Marion Bunel in the course of the 2025 season.