Finally, she couldn’t resist. While her initial program did not include a passage through the cobblestones of the North, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will be at the start of Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, the Visma-Lease a Bike team announced this Thursday. PFP will try to achieve an unprecedented double, after its victory last year.
The winner of the 2025 Tour de France, 34 years old, is part of the entry list sent by her team, just like the Dutchwoman Marianne Vos, who has not competed in a race for a month following the death of her father. This will be his second outing of the season after his 29th place at the Strade Bianche at the beginning of March.
Men’s and women’s race on the same day
The Frenchwoman should then line up for Liège-Bastogne-Liège, then the Vuelta and the Tour de France, according to her race program. Last year, she won in the Hell of the North for her first participation in the event after having devoted her last seasons to mountain biking, winning the Olympic title in the discipline in Paris in 2024.
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This year, and unlike last year, the women’s race will take place on Sunday, the same day as the men’s race. The women who will leave from Denain and arrive at the Roubaix Vélodrome after the men, who will start from Compiègne.
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