“It’s good for women and female cycling”, Jeannie Longo pays tribute to Pauline Ferrand-Prévot

Last victorious Frenchwoman of the Tour de France female, Jeannie Longo entrusted to the microphone of RMC all her admiration for Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, winner this Sunday of her first big loop.

The next generation is finally assured. Consequently, Thirty-six years after Jeannie Longo (1989). Furthermore, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot scored her name in the list of French female cycling by winning with a crash on the Tour de France, Sunday.

What revive the flame of the former tricolor champion, admiring the craze around the new feeling of tricolor cycling. In addition, “These are big emotions, we see that people are happy. It is good for women. female cycling, all French girls who will be able to draw inspiration from that,” she said shortly after RMC.

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“We saw that she was very sharp” – "it's good women female cycling",

At 66. Longo still “it’s good women female cycling”, retains a sharp eye on the pedal, and did not hesitate during this tour to go “to see some French women to give them advice”. Above all. the former cyclist with multiple titles of world champion (13 titles) said he was “confident” for “PFC” from the start, and knew that she would go to the end of her dream.

“We saw that she was very sharp, she wisely waited for the mountain,” continued Longo. “She did not have the strongest team. she was comfortably brought to the foot of the first great difficulty where she was going to excel.” The beginning of honors for the heroine of the day. which also received an unexpected call from the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, and offered sequences full of emotions with his parents.