Demi Vollering confirms two-year contract with FDJ-SUEZ from 2025 to 2026

Demi Vollering has signed a two-year contract with FDJ-SUEZ that may start in 2025 and expire on the finish of the 2026 season. Vollering joins the French WorldTour workforce as a co-leader alongside Évita Muzic and new-signing Juliette Labous.

“From the very first assembly with the FDJ-SUEZ workforce, I instantly had a very good feeling. I could not get the smile off my face. I am joyful to be embarking on this journey, to expertise one thing new and to rediscover myself on this workforce,” Vollering mentioned.

“It is very important do not forget that it’s a nice day for the FDJ-SUEZ workforce and it is an incredible day for biking, and for French biking, to be sincere, to signal one of the best rider for the GC in a French workforce. We will examine the mannequin of biking, between males’s and ladies’s biking, however it’s the first time {that a} star rider has accepted a take care of the French workforce,” Delcourt informed Cyclingnews.

“The official settlement was signed throughout the finish of the spring, and after that, we determined to concentrate on my aspect on my workforce and on her aspect on SD Worx, as a result of we felt that, collectively, it was higher to attend [to announce the agreement]. Why? She has an enormous respect for the SD Worx companions and her teammates. For that, one of the best was for her to concentrate on the Olympics, Tour and Worlds, and to attend.”

“To start with, I learn all of the rumours about Demi and SD Worx; extension and no extension. After the official extension of Lotte Kopecky, I needed to be shut, to know why and what occurred with SD Worx. Step-by-step we found each half, and it modified at one second once I mentioned, ‘Possibly now it’s time to have a face-to-face assembly together with her, and never solely her agent.’

“Straight after the primary assembly, I used to be motivated. It was like a brand new step. She shared rather a lot about her values and ethics and the way she needed to experience, to be on the workforce with the riders, workers and sponsors. After I in contrast that with the values of my workforce, sponsors – FDJ and SUEZ – that are two massive worldwide firms with two girls as presidents, and so they all the time say to me that crucial factor is just not the outcome however how we get the outcome. A very powerful factor is to encourage the subsequent technology.

“Over the last three years, it was a very good few years and we took the subsequent steps. We rode for our leaders; Grace Brown, who was nice for the workforce as a result of she was good to be one of the best home for the GC leaders Cecilie, Marta and Évita. We arrived in the meanwhile the place it was the final 12 months for Grace, and perhaps, the tip of 1 period for Marta and Cecilie,” Delcourt mentioned.

“And we all the time experience like this and Demi will repeat that, each time. That’s what she appreciated at SD Worx, to share the management and experience with riders like Marlen Reusser and Lotte Kopecky and Niamh Fisher-Black. We’ve the identical spirit and values; Demi is primary however for Juliette and Évita, in the event that they wish to proceed to enhance.

Requested if he felt FDJ-SUEZ would develop into the strongest workforce in 2025 Delcourt mentioned, “Sure, the plan is to be the most effective groups. However we all know that the opposite groups are good, particularly because it’s tough to analyse workforce Visma who’ve signed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and SD Worx signed again Anna van der Breggen and have Lotte Kopecky. You’ll be able to think about that it is going to be a very good competitors.

“We’ve the most effective groups on paper. A very powerful now’s how we will have one of the best workforce for all the races; Tour de France and Classics, and crucial factor is the synergy of all of the riders. We’ve our three GC leaders: Vollering, Muzic and Labous, however we even have riders Vittoria Guazzini, Elise Chabbey, and Ally Wollaston, riders who’re good and may be on the prime. If we’re good as a workforce, we now have riders for the long run and we will win rather a lot.”