Visma-Lease a Bike Girls have signed France’s Marion Bunel, broadly thought-about one of the vital promising younger riders within the peloton, for the subsequent three seasons.
Bunel, 20, triumphed within the Tour de L’Avenir Femmes in August, choosing up two stage wins en path to total victory together with one on the Colle dell Finestre summit end. She additionally accomplished her first Tour de France Femmes this summer season, ending seventeenth total in her first full skilled season and third within the race’s greatest younger rider classification.
The St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 rider mentioned in a Visma-Lease a Bike press launch that she was trying ahead to racing alongside skilled teammates comparable to Marianne Vos and fellow Frenchwoman Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
As defined in a current function in Cyclingnews, Visma-Lease a Bike Girls are present process a serious overhaul of their roster for 2025, saying goodbye to stalwarts Anna Henderson and Riejanne Markus, and including Ferrand-Prévot as she makes her return to highway racing.
Ferrand-Prévot has mentioned she’s going to attempt to win the Tour de France Femmes, an goal that dramatically ramps up the ambitions at Visma-Lease a Bike. The Frenchwoman is becoming a member of Martina Fidanza, Imogen Wolff and Viktória Chlodanová in becoming a member of the staff.
“I’m satisfied that that is the proper subsequent step for my profession. By way of amenities and teammates, I could not want for a greater atmosphere,” Bunel mentioned. “Up till now, I used to be all the time skilled by my father, so I’m very curious to see what it will likely be like to coach otherwise.”
“I’ve been following Pauline for a very long time. She is a good instance for me and I feel for a lot of others. I’m very joyful that I can now journey in a staff together with her for just a few extra years. I’ll attempt to be taught as a lot as potential from her.”
“Marion is a good expertise who can maintain her personal within the mountains.,” staff supervisor Rutger Tijssen added, stating that Bunel and Visma had already been involved after she completed eighth within the 2023 Tour de l’Avenir. “We’re very joyful that she selected us and I feel she can be very joyful that she will be able to take the subsequent step with us.”
Bunel herself mentioned she hoped to proceed progressing within the coming years: “My first Tour de France gave me numerous motivation. After all, it could be nice to win [ a stage in] the Tour in the future, however I wish to be taught and uncover as a lot as potential first.”
