While she is having a good start to the cyclo-cross season, Amandine Fouquenet does not currently have a contract for 2026 due to the shutdown of the Arkéa-B&B Hotels team.
Eight years after Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt’s victory in Overijse (Belgium), a French woman won again during an international cyclo-cross. In fact, on Tuesday, Amandine Fouquenet was victorious during the Superprestige stage organized in Heusden-Zolder. A great reward for the native of Vitré who has had a string of good results recently (2nd in Flamanville and 3rd in Namur).
A timely success for her… who currently does not have a contract for 2026 due to the shutdown of her Arkéa-B&B Hotels team. “ I’m really happy. I start each start telling myself that it is possible to win, even if it is not easy. I saw that I was physically well and technically very well, I still had confidence in myself,” she initially admitted, in comments collected by L’Équipe. A situation which inevitably made him think a little.
Fouquenet: “I took this pressure off myself”
“My mental trainer told me “don’t try to prove to the teams (to recruit her), have fun on the bike and if it has to come, it will come”. I took this pressure off myself. I’m having a pretty good season, I’m doing what I can as much as possible, but I can’t handle whether someone calls me or not. I live like this, hoping that the phone rings and the situation gets resolved », subsequently explained Fouquenet, determined to force her destiny.
“She didn’t have too many results in past years because that wasn’t her role. She was in the train of our sprinters to position them, and also placed her leaders before the climbs on the mountain days. A very, very good teammate who did her job extremely well. She is young, progressing from year to year », For his part declared Grégoire Le Calvé, one of its former sports directors, to the French sports daily.
