{"id":298398,"date":"2025-11-21T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298398\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:49:08","slug":"ex-lotto-manager-stephane-heulot-to-take-over-totalenergies-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298398\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lotto manager Stephane Heulot to take over TotalEnergies for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I feel I accomplished my mission,&#8221; Heulot explained his departure in an <\/p>\n<p>interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclismactu.net\/news-cyclisme-route-stephane-heulot-manager-general-quitte-lotto-je-suis-soulage-90303.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CyclismActu<\/a>\u00a0previously. &#8220;I arrived at a team that was falling apart financially, logistically and humanly. There was no real management. It was a huge rebuilding job, but after three years, I&#8217;d reached the limit of what I could do. The system had become too political.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first reports suggested of a gradual take-over from the soon 70-year-old Bernaudeau during the season, but Ouest-France now updates that Heulot should jump in charge of the team immediately this winter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is both a slight surprise and a logical choice,&#8221; Ouest-France\u00a0reported. &#8220;Logical because the two men share a sense of values and the same vision of authentic cycling.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Succeeding Bernaudeau, Heulot will be faced with a tricky challenge right off the bat &#8211; to find a new backer for the team beyond 2026. A position Heulot is already painfully familiar with as his entire stay with Lotto was marked by financial unstability and problems to find co-sponsors. Now with a new project, the whole circus starts anew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I feel I accomplished my mission,&#8221; Heulot explained his departure in an interview with CyclismActu\u00a0previously. &#8220;I arrived at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,12067,85,170742,73981],"class_list":{"0":"post-298398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-lotto","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-stephane-heulot","14":"tag-totalenergies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}