PATRON – Pauline Ferrand -Prévot does not say no to a second final victory on the Tour de France female, which she has just won. She says she is ready to tame the exercise of the time
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot barely had time to savor her first round in France which she already thinks of the second. “Yes, I want to do it again [le Tour], declares the Frenchwoman in the team. I want to fight again to win it. I really love what I do, I don’t see why I will stop. The leader of the Visma Lease a Bike is now known to be expected but she is confident, to the point of accepting the idea of gauging on a hypothetical time trial on the 2026 edition, even though she was delighted to have had to face it in 2025.
“It will be harder (to win again in 2026) because everyone will want to raise the level of a notch. But that’s what I prefer: that the battle is hard and everyone is 500 %. So it’s going to be interesting, especially if we have a time. »»
The manager of the Dutch team is not concerned about the adaptability of its champion in the lonely exercise. “It is like when she had never made an ascent of more than an hour as on the Madeleine. We remember the end of the story: a martyred competition on the queen stage of the 2025 women’s Tour de France.
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