Visma-Lease a Bike Ladies have signed France’s Marion Bunel, broadly thought-about one of the crucial promising younger riders within the peloton, for the following three seasons.
Bunel, 20, triumphed within the Tour de L’Avenir Femmes in August, selecting up two stage wins en path to general victory together with one on the Colle dell Finestre summit end. She additionally accomplished her first Tour de France Femmes this summer time, ending seventeenth general in her first full skilled season and third within the race’s greatest younger rider classification.
The St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 rider stated 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 characteristic in Cyclingnews, Visma-Lease a Bike Ladies 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 stated 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 group.
“I’m satisfied that that is the proper subsequent step for my profession. When it comes to services and teammates, I could not want for a greater setting,” Bunel stated. “Up till now, I used to be all the time educated by my father, so I’m very curious to see what it is going to be like to coach another way.”
“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 comfortable that I can now journey in a group along with her for a number of extra years. I’ll attempt to study as a lot as attainable from her.”
“Marion is a good expertise who can maintain her personal within the mountains.,” group supervisor Rutger Tijssen added, stating that Bunel and Visma had already been in touch after she completed eighth within the 2023 Tour de l’Avenir. “We’re very comfortable that she selected us and I feel she can also be very comfortable that she will take the following step with us.”
Bunel herself stated she hoped to proceed progressing within the coming years: “My first Tour de France gave me a whole lot of motivation. In fact, it will be nice to win [ a stage in] the Tour someday, however I need to study and uncover as a lot as attainable first.”
