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 abilities 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 street captain Oliver Naesen.
New signings embrace Swiss time trialist Stefan Bissegger and 2023 Underneath-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 vastly profitable 2024 after the arrival of Decathlon and their Van Rysel bikes. The crew received 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 purple jersey. The Western Australia moved to Jayco AlUla for 2025 however Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale hopes to shortly develop their younger abilities.
Decathlon have prolonged their hyperlinks to the crew, creating a brand new aero street 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 shall be a 12 months of affirmation and consolidation of our strategic plan,” crew Supervisor Dominique Serieys mentioned throughout a presentation held in Decathlon’s headquarters close to Lille in northern France.
“We need to turn out to be one of many world’s prime groups because of the total assist of companions Decathlon, AG2R La Mondiale, Van Rysel and others. We imagine we are able to with collectively to search out the subsequent marginal positive factors to guide us to our subsequent success.
“We’ve got to be prepared for 2025 in the absolute best manner. We’ve already reformed our employees and made it a extra worldwide organisation. We’ve determined two issues: We’ve prolonged the contract of vital riders, and we’ve welcomed 5 new riders from the Subsequent Gen crew. With our riders and gear we goal for a steadiness between expertise and youth, that’s 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 street race championships behind Ashlin Barry.
The Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale improvement crew consists of Australia’s Matthew Greenwood and a number of latest teenage expertise.
