Audrey Cordon-Ragot will journey for the brand new Zaaf Biking Group in 2022 following the collapse of the deliberate B&B Accommodations ladies’s crew.
Zaaf Biking Group named various riders who had been linked with B&B Accommodations within the 15-strong roster it introduced on Tuesday morning. Cordon-Ragot will likely be joined at Zaaf by her fellow Frenchwoman Lucie Jounier, Canadian champion Maggie Coles-Lyster, Heidi Franz, Michaela Drummond and Elizabeth Stannard.
Cordon-Ragot spent 4 years at Trek-Segafredo earlier than departing the crew on the finish of the 2022 season in an effort to headline the deliberate new B&B Accommodations ladies’s crew alongside Chloe Hosking and Olympic champion Anna Kiesenhofer.
In July, Jérôme Pineau introduced that he had reached an settlement with the Metropolis of Paris as he outlined plans to increase the lads’s squad that he began in 2018 to include a ladies’s crew and a improvement crew.
Mark Cavendish was closely linked with a transfer to the lads’s crew, whereas the French champion Cordon-Ragot – who recovered from a stroke suffered forward of the World Championships – was the marquee identify on the deliberate ladies’s crew.
After mounting hypothesis, Pineau final week confirmed that he can be unable to run a crew in 2023 due an absence of sponsorship, leaving riders from each the lads’s and girls’s squads to hunt contracts elsewhere at quick discover.
Cordon-Ragot, who additionally received Postnord Vårgårda WestSweden in 2022, will now compete for the brand new Zaaf Biking Group, primarily based in Barcelona and named in honour of the Algerian bike owner Abdel-Kader Zaaf, who participated in 4 Excursions de France, most famously on the tumultuous stage to Nîmes in 1950, which was in the end received by his compatriot Marcel Molinès.
