Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt out of European championships, ends 2025 season

Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt won’t characterize France within the UEC Street European Championships elite girls’s highway race on Saturday. The Tour de France winner fell sick with a fever and abdomen issues upon coming back from the UCI Street World Championships in Rwanda, in keeping with L’Equipe.

The group additionally misplaced Maëva Squiban, with the pair changed by Dilyxine Miermont and Célia Le Mouel.

“It is a change that we’re shedding two good playing cards,” French coach Paul Brousse stated. “For Maëva, it was declared on the finish of the week, already on Saturday [during Worlds], she wasn’t at her stage.

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“And after we replay the movie, Pauline was already as weakened on Saturday. That can reshuffle the plans, tomorrow (Thursday), the group will probably be full, we are going to talk about all that once more.

“Juliette Labous is in good condition, she managed the transition nicely [from Kigali], proof of which is her end result within the time trial.”

Labous got here sixth within the elite girls’s particular person time trial behind winner Marlen Reusser (Switzerland). Cédrine Kerbaol was ninth within the time trial. Brousse also can depend on Evita Muzic within the highway race on Saturday.

Ferrand-Prévôt might have been the highest contender have been it not for her sickness, which has introduced her season to an finish. Brousse couldn’t level to any single explanation for her sickness.

“It might be multifactorial. All well being measures have been applied to make sure that issues went as easily as doable. We had cooks, a nutritionist on web site, and a top-notch group. Different nations have been affected, too.”