Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale have revealed a refreshed race equipment for 2025, a brand new Van Rysel aerodynamic race bike and race clothes in addition to a rejuvenated roster that features teenage French skills Paul Seixas and Léo Bisiaux and 2023 Junior time trial world champion Oscar Chamberlain of Australia.
Luke Rowe has joined Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale after ending his racing profession with Ineos Grenadiers, and he’ll work with Grand Tour chief Felix Gall, sprinter Sam Bennett, Benoît Cosnefroy, Victor Lafay and particularly the Classics riders that features highway captain Oliver Naesen.
New signings embrace Swiss time trialist Stefan Bissegger and 2023 Beneath-23 Giro d’Italia winner Johannes Staune-Mittet. The WorldTour crew additionally consists of French nationwide champion Paul Lapeira, Aurélien Paret-Peintre and trusted Australian dash lead-out man Callum Scotson.
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale loved a massively profitable 2024 after the arrival of Decathlon and their Van Rysel bikes. The crew gained 30 races, with Ben O’Connor ending fourth total on the Giro d’Italia after which second on the Vuelta a España, after two weeks within the chief’s crimson jersey. The Western Australia moved to Jayco AlUla for 2025 however Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale hopes to rapidly develop their younger skills.
Decathlon have prolonged their hyperlinks to the crew, creating a brand new aero highway bike, the race clothes and off-race informal clothes. The crew refreshed their blue and inexperienced racing colors, and added a contact of inexperienced to the bikes.
“2025 might be a 12 months of affirmation and consolidation of our strategic plan,” crew Supervisor Dominique Serieys stated throughout a presentation held in Decathlon’s headquarters close to Lille in northern France.
“We need to change into one of many world’s high groups due to the complete assist of companions Decathlon, AG2R La Mondiale, Van Rysel and others. We consider we are able to with collectively to search out the following marginal beneficial properties to guide us to our subsequent success.
“We’ve got to be prepared for 2025 in the absolute best approach. We have already reformed our workers and made it a extra worldwide organisation. We have determined two issues: We have prolonged the contract of vital riders, and we have welcomed 5 new riders from the Subsequent Gen crew. With our riders and tools we goal for a steadiness between expertise and youth, that is a part of our DNA.”
Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale have a Junior crew, a improvement crew and the WorldTour crew. They don’t have a girls’s crew. The 2025 junior squad consists of Nice Britain’s Gus and Evander Wishart and the USA’s Braden Reitz, who was second within the US Junior highway race championships behind Ashlin Barry.
The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale improvement crew consists of Australia’s Matthew Greenwood and a bunch of latest teenage expertise.
