Groupama-FDJ's team manager, Marc Madiot has taken time to shed some light on the team's strategies going forward after their star sprinter, Arnaud Demare reacted with disappointment to the departures of his two key lead-out men
Ramon Sinkeldam and
Jacopo Guarnieri.
“If you look closely at current cycling, you see that sprinters are less and less often surrounded by a block of riders”, Madiot explains. “You have to be able to participate in a knockout race before you can finally sprint. We will therefore try to adapt to the new price situations. The idea is also to make young riders, such as
Laurence Pithie, stronger. They can therefore take up a place in the sprint train.”