Zoe Bäckstedt and her father Magnus Bäckstedt will now not work for a similar workforce in 2025 after the previous Paris-Roubaix winner departed Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto and joined Cofidis Ladies.
The Bäckstedt pair joined forces on the German workforce in 2023 after Zoe made a mid-season switch from EF Schooling-TIBCO-SVB and joined Magnus, who began at Canyon-SRAM because the lead Sport Director at first of the identical season.
Together with her season Elynor additionally racing on a special workforce at UAE ADQ in 2025, Zoe Bäckstedt’s response was solely constructive when her dad knowledgeable her they’d now not be teammates.
“He advised me some time in the past. I used to be on vacation really, and he known as me up and simply advised me that he wasn’t going to be working with me for the ‘cross season as a lot and that he was transferring groups. It isn’t that I can do something about it, it isn’t my job, It is his job,” Backstedt advised Cyclingnews at Canyon-SRAM’s December coaching camp in Portugal.
“Once I came upon that he was additionally going to Cofidis, I used to be tremendous completely happy for him and it is cool to see him working, talking French on a regular basis in conferences. You sit there and watch him in a gathering and his mind is simply [whirring] and there is smoke popping out of his ears pondering of issues. I believe he is completely happy.”
It is going to be a step down from WorldTour-level to girls’s biking’s new ProTeam ranks at Cofidis for Magnus Bäckstedt however he was excited in regards to the problem when formally introduced at the beginning of December.
“Cofidis is a prestigious workforce, well-known on the planet of biking. The problem with the ladies’s workforce is thrilling. I’ll do every part to contribute and proceed to construct an surroundings that’s beneficial to the event of feminine riders,” he stated.
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“I wish to carry my expertise, within the classics in fact but additionally in all of the races the place I shall be requested to go to permit the workforce to develop and attain the UCI World Tour.”
Bäckstedt started falling out of favour earlier than the Tour de France Femmes, which Canyon-SRAM and Kasia Niewiadoma went on to win with out him within the automotive. Daniel Benson first reported the fallout on his Substack because the Swede revealed that disagreements with workforce supervisor Ronny Lauke over techniques led to him eradicating himself from the Tour.
He was changed by Slovakian assistant DS Adam Szabo on the race, whose work had primarily been with Canyon-SRAM technology – the workforce’s growth facet. Since Bäckstedt’s departure has been introduced, Lauke has confirmed that Szabo will now make a step up.
“We’ve modified the construction somewhat bit, Adam [Szabo] has develop into the Head of Sport. He has run the Technology workforce for the final three years and has now stepped up,” Lauke advised Cyclingnews.
“The aim is to mix the technology workforce and the WorldTour workforce nearer in order that each work nearer and are extra aligned.”
With Magnus Bäckstedt leaving and Brit Dani Christmas additionally asserting she could be stepping away from Canyon-SRAM in November, there’s been a giant change to the workers construction on the reigning Tour de France Femmes successful workforce.
“[Szabo] can have assist from Davide Arzeni, who has come from Valkar-Journey & Service, and UAE ADQ, Steffen Radochla, who was a sprinter in his biking profession and has labored for Bora-Hansgrohe and for the final three years with Ceratizit-WNT,” stated Lauke.
“We’ve André Schultze, who has additionally labored with Bora-Hansgrohe earlier than as sports activities director and now part-time with us for 2 years.
“Then we’ve Beth [Duryea] who can be typically within the automotive,” alongside being the workforce’s advertising and marketing and communications supervisor and press officer. “However solely on very uncommon events, and principally she decides when she needs to be in as a result of she has different duties. That is our new construction on the World Tour workforce.”
