Pauline Ferrand-Prevot: Ineos star hypes up Paris 2024 mountain bike bid – ‘I can be really good at D-Day’

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot is stepping up her hunt for the one main title that eludes her: Olympic gold.

Ferrand-Prevot, talking at Warner Bros. Discovery’s start-of-season biking launch occasion, stated: “The Olympic title is the one one lacking. So for positive I actually need to have a gold medal. It is also why I selected to go to the brand new staff.

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“I do know I’ve two years to be the most effective athlete and to enhance once more in a number of issues. It’s the principle objective of my profession, so I am already engaged on it to be higher.”

Ferrand-Prevot has received 4 cross-country world titles – the one MTB self-discipline within the Olympics – and in addition boasts two marathon wins. She received three rainbow jerseys in simply seven weeks final season – two on the mountain bike in Les Will get, France, plus victory on the inaugural Gravel World Championships in Veneto, Italy.

“Final yr with the win in Les Will get, it was an enormous factor for me as a result of it was in entrance of my very own crowd and it must be the identical in Paris subsequent yr,” she continued.

“I additionally proved to myself that I will be actually good at D-Day, and I can put every little thing collectively to be the most effective for one and a half hours. So for me it was an excellent check final yr in Les Will get.”

Regardless of her haul on the world stage final season, Ferrand-Prevot is concentrating on extra consistency in 2023.

“Final yr I used to be superb for a brief interval. And this yr, I wish to be extra constant and to attempt to construct up my form for the massive objective which is the World Championship,” she stated.

Ferrand-Prevot will compete within the UCI Mountain Bike World Sequence this yr, with the most important MTB World Cup occasions uniting to type a bumper new competitors.

Switzerland’s Alessandra Keller will defend her girls’s cross-country title this season, though Ferrand-Prevot is anticipating fierce competitors throughout the board.

“What’s nice with MTB, it is not solely about one rider, however possibly 10 riders [who] can win a World Cup. It is so thrilling to see,” she stated.

“Additionally with all these younger women from the Netherlands, they’re additionally very promising. So we’ve got to see what they will do in each class.”

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