{"id":352424,"date":"2025-12-16T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:17:12","slug":"i-have-a-feeling-it-will-be-a-super-good-year-for-me-says-pauline-ferrand-prevot-as-she-aims-for-season-long-success-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/352424\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I have a feeling it will be a super good year for me&#8217; says Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot as she aims for season-long success in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"744d49a4-f46c-4f20-8d48-b06b76cecd62\">Following her hugely successful return to road racing in 2025, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/pauline-ferrand-prevot\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/pauline-ferrand-prevot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a> has said that she has &#8220;a feeling that next year will be super good for me&#8221; as she targets the Classics, a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-france-femmes\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/tour-de-france-femmes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a> repeat, and the Road World Championships in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/road\/teams\/uci-womens-worldtour\/2025\/visma-lease-a-bike-women\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/road\/teams\/uci-womens-worldtour\/2025\/visma-lease-a-bike-women\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visma-Lease a Bike<\/a>&#8216;s Inside the Beehive podcast, the Frenchwoman ran the rule over the 2025 season, her first full road campaign in a decade and her first with the Dutch team.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" data-url=\"\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"744d49a4-f46c-4f20-8d48-b06b76cecd62-2\">Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot said that she&#8217;s targeting consistency throughout the season in 2026, coming off a year in which she triumphed at <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/paris-roubaix\/\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/paris-roubaix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paris-Roubaix<\/a> and the Tour as well as taking podium places at Strade Bianche and the Tour of Flanders.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also really think that I can be more consistent during the full season. I would like to win more Classic races, and also I want to try to win Tour de France again and to be world champion next year,&#8221; Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;So I think I don&#8217;t know why, but I have a feeling it will be a super good year for me, because I learned so much last year that now I know what I have to do, and I just can do what I learned from last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot exceeded all expectations with her performance in 2025, saying that her goal for the season was &#8220;to learn&#8221;, with her spring success &#8220;not planned for.&#8221; She explained that her spring was &#8220;\u00e0 la carte&#8221;, while noting that she has learned a lot for future campaigns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;I like trying things, and if it&#8217;s good, it&#8217;s good. If it&#8217;s not, then OK, we just move on. But don&#8217;t expect something and be disappointed about it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think we tried a lot of things, and sometimes it works, sometimes not, but you always learn from it. I think that, for me, was the goal of this season \u2013 to learn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After such a successful run of races in March and April, Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot said that she had &#8220;nothing to lose&#8221; heading into the rest of the season, including her main racing goal at the Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Preparing for the July race was &#8220;the best part of cycling,&#8221; she explained, before saying that the biggest challenge in France was having to wait to go on the attack on the Col de la Madeleine.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;The most challenging was to wait until the Madeleine because I knew I was ready, but you don&#8217;t know how ready you are. So, you just want to try, but I also knew that I had to be patient, which is not my quality,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;So, I just had to try to preserve myself for this final weekend. I think the most challenging thing was not to do too much before the Madeleine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;On the Madeleine, I was quite in control, so I knew I could go faster. It&#8217;s so nice when you can feel that you&#8217;re in control. I really like it because it was I could decide what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;I also had this feeling at the Olympics, and I know a bit this feeling when you feel like nothing can happen to you. This is not a feeling you have every day, but it&#8217;s such a good feeling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FERRAND-PR\u00c9VOT: \u201cFirst thing we needed to do, was to build a team\u201d &#8211; PODCAST Inside the Beehive &#8211; YouTube<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765916232_620_maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"FERRAND-PR\u00c9VOT: \u201cFirst thing we needed to do, was to build a team\u201d - PODCAST Inside the Beehive - YouTube\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"watch-on-youtube-lEFDr7HEqD0\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lEFDr7HEqD0\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lEFDr7HEqD0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following her hugely successful return to road racing in 2025, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot has said that she has &#8220;a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-352424","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352424","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=352424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}