Was this Guillaume Boivin\u2019s best season ever?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe Tour is a few weeks away, and Boivin was doing his best to be optimistic about his chances that he could race in the world\u2019s biggest bike race.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I talked to the surgeon, I was trying to do everything I could to see if it would be possible to recover in time,\u201d he said. \u201cI still have to accept it. It\u2019s not fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trying to remain optimistic<\/p>\n
The setback is especially difficult for Boivin because he had already secured his place on the Tour squad and had been preparing for the race for months. He has ridden every Tour de France since 2021 and admitted opportunities to return are becoming limited, given his age.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t have many Tours de France left, if it wasn\u2019t the last,\u201d Boivin said.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s still plenty of season left, and there\u2019s obviously one big race that Boivin is thinking about: the 2026 UCI road worlds in his hometown. It\u2019s every cyclist\u2019s dream.
\u201cThat\u2019s what will motivate me to get back in shape for the end of the season,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t end like this. I have to come back to have a big season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boivin\u2019s long career<\/p>\n
Boivin turned pro with Steve Bauer\u2019s Spidertech Powered by C10 in 2011. The team was part of the Canadian cycling legend\u2019s effort to bring a Canadian squad to the Tour de France. Although they did upgrade from Continental status to ProTeam, that never happened. The team did race in some pretty big races like the Tour de Suisse, and had wins in long-running races like Tro Bro Leon.<\/p>\n
From there, Boivin would join WorldTour team Cannondale for a few years, before bouncing around with stints on a few Conti squads. Ultimately, he would find a home with the team then known as Israel Cycling Academy, which would become a WorldTour team for several years. For 2026, it was rebranded as NSN Cycling. In his long career, he has been a three-time national road champion, and had a terrific ride in the maple leaf jersey at the 2021 Paris-Roubaix, where he finished ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some crappy news for NSN Cycling\u2019s Guillaume Boivin. The 37-year-old pro had surgery on his left shoulder following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[357970,362224,64,63,784,267556,938,85],"class_list":["post-757193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-tour-de-france","tag-2026-uci-road-worlds","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-guillaume-boivin","tag-montreal","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757193","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=757193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}