Married to Marion Rousse from 2014 to 2014, Tony Gallopin was appointed sports director in the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe this Wednesday.
Long before she became a consultant and then director of the Tour de France women, Marion Rousse was herself a cyclist. Champion of France on road in 2012, she lived at the time the great love with a certain Tony Gallopin, met in 2008 and with whom she was married between 2014 and 2019. Well known to lovers of cycling and freshly retired from the platoons since October 2023, the latter embraced a career as a sports director. And there was new for him this Wednesday.
Even before he stopped his career and left the Trek-Segafredo team, Tony Gallopin knew that he wanted to continue in the middle of the pedal. In August 2023, the Lotto-Destny announced its arrival in the costume of sports director. A two -year contract which therefore expired in three months. Visibly delighted with the experience, the French of thirty-seven years will continue in his new functions, but within another training.
It is indeed on the side of the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe team that he has committed, as She officially announced it This day. The German training is very ambitious for 2026 and showed it by recruiting in particular Remco Evenepoel, on fire on the time trial of the world and European championships in recent days. Tony Gallopin is not the only sports director since they will be eight in total.
Tony Gallopin Sports Director at Red Bull
Other names have been cited, including that of Klaas Lodewyck, sports director of Remco Evenepoel on the side of Sudal Quick-Step. Also note the appointment of Zak Dempster, a former Bora runner ten years ago and who will now occupy the function of “Sports chief”.
Tony Gallopin and the Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe present themselves as serious adversaries for the other rich stables of the peloton that are in particular the Visma-Lease A Bike by Jonas Vingegaard and of course the UAE Team Emirates of Tadej Pogacar.
