Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt is “a champion apart as part of French cycling”, assures the president of the federation

The Olympic mountain bike champion won the Tour's queen stage at the Col de la Madeleine on Saturday, seizing the yellow jersey.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt is “A champion completely apart as part of French cycling”enthuses Sunday August 3 on Franceinfo The president of the French Cycling Federation, Michel Callot. For her first Tour de France Women, the Olympic mountain bike champion won the Tour's Reine stage on Saturday at the Madeleine pass, in Savoie, after a splendid soloist number. She took over the yellow jersey and saw her first success on the big female loop. She would thus become the first Frenchwoman to win the Tour, 36 years after the victory of Jeannie Longo.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt's victory at the top of the Madeleine pass “was a big moment for French cycling”according to Michel Calot. “We hope that Pauline will touch the Grail with a final victory in the Tour de France women”launches the boss of the Federation. The 33 -year -old Rémoise who had given himself three years to win the Tour, her “Little girl dream”has won everything in the world of cycling: world road champion, mountain biking, gravel or cyclo-cross.

By returning to the road after her Olympic coronation last summer, she even won Paris-Roubaix in the spring. “Beyond the charts, it is the attitude of a champion who knows how to set himself on goals, who has an incredible mastery when she is going as she did yesterday and in addition, in terms of personality, he is someone very very endearing”says the president of the French Cycling Federation.

“It is an image for French cycling, for women compared to the bicycle which is just extraordinary”

Michel Callot, president of the French Cycling Federation

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“Let's savor what happened yesterday, let's savor these three consecutive stage victories for the French, it's huge”rejoices Michel Callot, who also underlines the beautiful tower of the French. They are four in the first ten places in the general classification before the last step between Praz-sur-Arly and Châtel (Haute-Savoie). “We have a generation that goes up. I think we have a bright future for French cycling”he continues. The success of the French on this Tour de France women “will attract people” In cycling clubs, he believes.