Guest of the show Sports integral This Monday on RMC, the double stage winner on the Tour de France female 2025 Maëva Squiban (UAE Team Adq) confides in this fantastic edition for the three -color runners. An edition that illustrates the whole path traveled in recent years by French female cycling according to her.
It was one of the great actresses of this female Tour de France. Victorious of two consecutive stages – the 6th and 7th – the UAE Team Adq training runner took with her all the French public on the roadside, which was more and more numerous over the days, until the coronation, on Sunday, of Pauline Ferrand -Prévot (Visma Lease a Bike).
“The Tour de France helps enormously the development of female cycling”
Exceptional guest of the show The SPORT INTERGUL On RMC this Monday, Maëva Squiban returned to this 2025 edition of the Grande Boucle. The opportunity to measure the whole path traveled from the return of the female tour to the calendar in 2022.
“I had made the first edition of this new formula, and frankly there were much fewer people on the roads, it had not marked me more than that,” she recalls. “But already last year, there were a lot of people, and even more this year. I think that the departure in Brittany was able to play too. At the start, on arrival … There was crowd everywhere (…) I think that the Tour de France helps a great deal with the development of female cycling. The organizers do a great job on it. The evolution in four years is incredible, it is not for nothing that is the best race.”
“I think the French public did not expect it as much”
If the evolution of popular support is remarkable, it is the same with regard to the professionalization of female cycling, again well supported by being able to compete a race like the Tour.
“My first two years in pro, I did not have an employment contract, it was for fun. Today there is always a difference between men and women, but the change is enormous, we see it with this new formula. We are on the right track, female cycling has professionalized, there are standards for work contracts, wages, staff for teams … I think that I have a good time.
As to know what place will occupy this 2025 edition in the great chapter of cycling and female sport, Maëva Squiban is not hiding: “The victory of Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) last year had already done a lot of good. And this year having four French victories and success to the general of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, I think that the French public was not waiting for so much. Annals for French cycling. “