With the recent announcement of the departure ofAg2R at World Cup of the peloton, we were waiting to see who was going to take its place alongside Decathlon For the years to come. It is now known, it is the maritime transport giant CMA CGM which will be partner in equal parts of French training, for at least the next five years, with ambitions largely reassessed for the coming years and the desire to win the Tour de France By 2030. To do this, nearly 40 million euros should be injected into the team from 2026 – far from the current 28 million – to, in the long term, get closer to the peloton behemoths that are the teams UAE Team Emirates XRG et Visma | Lease a Bike.
VIDEO – Dominique Serieys at the microphone of Cyclism'Actu during the Tour
“We will have ambitions from 2026”
In an interview with RMC Sport on the second day of rest of the Tour de France This Monday, the president of the future Decathlon CMA CGM, Dominique Serieys clearly displayed his ambitions: “It is a real construction. We see that from year to year, the team has evolved sharply and that in the strategic plan, from 2026, we will have ambitions that we will present later because they will be quite innovative. But above all, the 2030 objective is to win the Tour de France”. To do this, the French team wants to give itself the means and recruit the best runners in the world despite the complexities linked to the French tax system.
Even if a big recruitment will be made, starting with the expected arrivals of Tiesj Benoot and ofOlav Kooij (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) At the end of the season, the master card of this project is already in the team and is called Paul Seixas : “(The project) will revolve around him and he will be focused around him, confirmed Dominique Serieys. But it takes us time, because its first results are undoubtedly expected in 2028. It is necessary to give the time to Paul to understand, to learn and to perform. “ Until then, more realistic objectives such as winning “Beautiful classics” or from “Win a green jersey on the Tour de France”, will be fixed, so as to allow the French nugget time to rise in power.
