Not only the Groupama-FDJ cycling team’s squad has experienced changes over the winter. The sports department is also going through a real transformation. Two new sports directors are joining the ranks of the WorldTour organization, while Franck Pineau and Sébastien Joly left the team. At the head of the department, newly retired Yvon Madiot left the command to Philippe Mauduit, who talked about the reorganization in a press release.
"With Yvon and Franck retiring, the team chose to anticipate the changes of the coming years. It was necessary to find a successor to Yvon as director of the sports department, and I was chosen. It’s a new role for me in the team but it’s something I wanted to do."
Mauduit hopes to bring the team even more attention to detail: "I really want to facilitate the projects’ execution. I want to make sure that sports directors have the freedom to think, express themselves and act. Of course, this must be in line with the framework defined upstream by senior management, and towards the objectives which have been set."
"I am waiting for confirmation of our young talents’ breakthrough, and I hope that I will live up to Marc and David’s confidence. To use a famous phrase from Marc, I’m waiting for the winning counter to run, and for it to run as soon as possible," he says about his expectations for the first year in a new role.
