Guest of Apolline morning on RMC this Monday, the day after her daughter’s coronation on the Tour de France, Sylviane Dubau predicted that Pauline Ferrand-Prévot would come back to the Grande Boucle was going to return next year with the intention of winning.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot does not intend to stop there. Victorious of the Tour de France this Sunday, the French (33) has already announced her intention to continue her career, she who has succeeded in her incredible bet in less than a year. Guest of RMC this Monday morning, her mother Sylviane Dubau imagined her to come back in 2026 with the ambition to win the big loop again.
Ferrand-Prévot’s mother also wondered about the future of her daughter this Sunday evening. “This was the question I had in mind on arrival,” she said. “I think she will try to win the Tour de France again next season. We did not necessarily expect her. We did not know her level in the mountains or her level over time. Her competitors were in question, Pauline too. The challenge is to win it twice in a row.”
If the Olympic Mountain Bike title represented a quest for Ferrand-Prévot, made in Paris in 2024, the dream of the Tour de France could seem inaccessible. As a reminder, the race was only relaunched in 2022. “The yellow jersey and the Tour de France, it is the Grail for a cyclist. When she was small, she ran a lot in mixed with the boys,” said Sylviane Dubau. “She always said that she wanted to be a boy, she saw differences in treatment.”
“When she stopped mountain biking, she told us to buy a motorhome”
For their part, the parents of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot accompany him again on the races. On Saturday, they were present six kilometers from the summit of the Col de la Madeleine, to give the last container. “When she stopped mountain biking, she told us to buy a motorhome because she was going to return to the road,” said Sylviane Dubau. “We did it, here it is again.”
“She didn’t taste her gold medal and that was pretty good,” added Ferrand-Prévot’s mother. “I was afraid of post-Jo depression. She plunged back into other projects, that of winning the Tour de France and returning to the road on the road. She has worked a lot, as usual. She gets up in the morning, she will run, she has lunch then she will be 5 or 6 hours of bicycle. In the evening, it’s muscu and yoga. It’s her life.”
Upon arrival in Châtel this Sunday, where she won her second consecutive stage, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot was able to release the pressure, falling in the arms of her parents. “She said thank you, on several occasions. It was we who thank her for giving us all this happiness and these adventures for all these years,” said Sylviane Dubau, who expected this last step to be more complicated for her daughter.