CONFIRMED: Remi Cavagna changes Movistar for Groupama after disastrous year
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Rémi Cavagna's horrible spell with Movistar Team has come to an end after less than a year of association. Groupama - FDJ has officially announced the signing of the time trial specialist for the 2025 season, who initially had a contract with the Spanish team until 2026.
Cavagna came to the team to bring good results in the time trials. But the Frenchman's 2024 has been a nightmare. The rider failed to finish even once in the top 10 in all the time trials he competed in, which led to him not being selected for the World Championships in France. He has been open about the struggles in communication with the team and the lack of a good relationship, and how that then affected his performance.
This led to a mutual agreement between him and the team to end the contract prematurely so he could seek a contract elsewhere. Now, in the team of his country, he will seek redemption.
Remi Cavagna wants to return to the Grand Tours
Before his move to Groupama - FDJ was confirmed, in his last statements as a Movistar Team rider during the Tour de Guangxi, Cavagna said that next year he hoped to ride "the Giro d'Italia or the Tour de France. It's very important for the legs and for the condition to do so."
He also mentioned that there was no hard feelings with the Spanish team, nor that he was too affected by having been at such a low level: "I'm sure I'll find a good way. This didn't go well. When the head is not here, the legs are not here either. There's no problem. I spoke with Eusebio (Unzué, team manager, ed.) and with everyone. It's not a problem. I tried once in Spain, but it didn't work out. That's life, isn't it?"
"I know that if I do one more year, I can't do well in the future. I prefer to change. For next year I hope to have luck and also good rankings, to get points with the new team," added a Cavagna who can already mention Groupama - FDJ as that new team.
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In his final year with Quick Step in 2023 he had the best season of his career to date. This season - his one and only with Movistar - has been his worst ever on the World Tour. Not a good look for Movistar, especially if he returns to form in 2025. He only turned 29 this year, so he should hopefully still be at his peak.
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- Sorry thenMistermaumau13-04-2025
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- these french guys are such petty jealous whiners i can’t stand Madiot.mij13-04-2025
- More crying from a failing team boss with no winsCrashjames13-04-2025
- (I was really replying to the other person...) In Paris Roubaix, the bits with the cobbles are slower than the paved sections, so wind resistance is less than it otherwise would be on a "flat" road, though as I keep pointing out, these are equivalent to a bunch of little hills. While momentum will help one maintain velocity given resistances, you aren't taking into account that one had to get that extra mass up to speed in the first place, which costs more power. So, you do get back most of the extra power you've put in, but that's not helpful. The less rolling resistance (and climbing over the bumps) of less mass will always be more helpful than having more mass, all else held equal. Actually, this could be easily demonstrated with a cyclist on cobbles, 2 runs, start at the same velocity, do the same power, have a backpack full of foam on run 1, then full of rocks on run 2 (ensuring the PSI was perfected for both) and see which run went faster. And when we think about it, we know which one will be faster intuitively.acem8213-04-2025
- Yes, you did say that but what is the point of stating the obvious when obviously a lighter rider won’t be able to avoid reality which is that above a certain speed rolling resistance becomes insignificant compared to wind resistance, so it pragmatically all things being kept equal is irrelevant for them in their task. Momentum is what you’re left with after overcoming resistances, and that’s what going to help you keep up your speed except on a longer hill where weight will slow you faster.Mistermaumau13-04-2025
- Yes ok, but then what were the exact details then, did he cross the line, did his team not ask the stewards committee if they thought it was an exceptional case? He got the time but not the ranking, not even the last ranking, which suggests it was looked at and decided but explain why you feel it wasn’t right? There are only two cases it doesn’t apply, team time trials and summit finishes, so flat or not makes no difference.Mistermaumau13-04-2025
- Rolling resistance goes up with weight. Also, I did specify "all else held equal".acem8213-04-2025
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