The last time we saw Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Team visma | lease a bike) in competition, it was on The return, that she unfortunately did not finish, physically diminished. But the Champenoise has not lost sight of its main objective of the season: The Tour de France women with zwift. After her Olympic mountain biking coronation in 2024, the Frenchwoman decided to devote herself to 100 % on the road in order to “Win the Tour de France within three years coming” And thus become the first French to win it since its rebirth in 2021. First try this year and to put all the odds on its side, the leader of the Team Visma | Lease a Bike Layed his suitcases in Tignes, after three days of recognition of the latest alpine stages. During her internship at altitude, the 33 -year -old runner maintained himself with our colleagues from the newspaper The Dauphiné on his preparation and his ambitions.
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“I aim to win the Tour within 3 years”
In the company of Marion Bunel, Marianne your or Fem van Empelthe winner of Paris-Roubaix is in Tignes with the aim of training certainly, but also to rest before its main objective of the season: “I must also be careful to rest here because I have to keep it under the pedal for the Tour de France (July 26-August 3). This is the last phase of preparation. We come here to Tignes for the roads of the sector and this magnificent station. But we also come to get green and take advantage of it a bit before being in the chaos of the Tour de France. “
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot So doesn’t hide that the Tignes station frame has a lot to do with it in your choice to come and train here, a place that remembers a lot of good moments to our Olympic champion. “”I came back last year before the Olympic Games for my final preparation. I have lots of good memories here “. But nothing can divert her from her goal, not even the mountain bike descents present in the Alps: “I am 100 % focused on the road. I aim to win the Tour de France within three years coming”. However, this preparation is not a vacation camp: “Now to be at the highest level, you have to be specialized. It's much more professional now.” She therefore sums up these weeks of training by this slogan: “Training hard, recovering well”.
