{"id":441051,"date":"2026-01-27T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441051\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:34:22","slug":"sister-of-pauline-ferrand-prevot-makes-worldtour-step-at-29-via-gravel-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/441051\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister of Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot makes WorldTour step at 29 via gravel route"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news for the Pr\u00e9vot family: Axelle Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot, the sister of Tour de France Femmes winner Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot<\/a>, has made an immediate move to EF Education-Oatly. The 29-year-old has impressed on the gravel circuit in recent seasons and will now combine that with a road programme.<\/p>\n

She will do so with EF Education-Oatly, and the French rider is crystal clear about why the match feels right. \u201cThis is my dream team,\u201d Axelle said. \u201cThey think outside of the box at EF Education-Oatly. It\u2019s the only team where I can see myself because I don\u2019t have a traditional cycling background. I want to be serious and also to keep the joy and the fun in racing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team introduced <\/a>their new rider with some background. Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot grew up in a cycling family, but she didn\u2019t immediately fall in love with the sport and often felt it as an obligation. As a teenager, she moved between cycling and other activities, including dancing and ultra running.<\/p>\n

“Still, she was strong enough on the bike to earn racing contracts, even if she wasn\u2019t sure how much she enjoyed it. It was only when she met her partner that she saw cycling with fresh eyes. Training together, Axelle felt unencumbered, free of pressure for the first time. When an injury threatened to sideline her running career, someone suggested she switch to riding gravel and Axelle fell in love with cycling all over again,” EF said.<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the photo!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot dreams of Tour de France Femmes<\/p>\n

The last two years have gone very well, and now Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot has opted for a professional team set-up. \u201cThis coming season, I want to keep my French gravel national champion\u2019s jersey and I want to race the Traka again,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd on the road, I want to be a strong teammate so everyone can depend on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is also a longer-term goal: the Tour\u2014the race her sister has already won<\/a>. \u201cWhen I heard a few years ago that the Tour was coming back, I was out of the cycling world and I felt a bit sad to think that I would never take part in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m French and if someone asks me what I do and I say I\u2019m a cyclist, they immediately ask if I race the Tour de France. It\u2019s the reference. Now after watching the race and seeing that EF Education-Oatly really wants to do something big at the Tour, I would love to make the Tour squad one year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good news for the Pr\u00e9vot family: Axelle Dubau-Pr\u00e9vot, the sister of Tour de France Femmes winner Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,111365,22239,85,23293],"class_list":{"0":"post-441051","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-ef-education-easypost","12":"tag-pauline-ferrand-prevot","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-womens-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441051","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=441051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}