FDJ - Suez 2026 Preview
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In this episode Patrick and Benji preview arguably the best women's team in the world, FDJ - Suez.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro & 2025 recap
10:04 - Tour de France Femmes
16:07 - Transfers
29:33 - Predictions & hot takes
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🇦🇺 Patrick Broe - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@LanterneRougeCycling & https://www.instagram.com/the_lanterne_rouge_/ & https://www.twitter.com/lanternerougeyt
🇧🇪 Benji Naesen - Host: https://www.youtube.com/@BenjiNaesenTV & https://www.instagram.com/benjinaesen/ & https://www.twitter.com/benjinaesen
🇳🇱 Luc Grefte - Producer: https://www.twitter.com/lucgrefte
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Langer Rouge Cycling Podcasts for the preview of FDJ Suez. |
| 0:05.3 | The arguably the best women's team in the world. |
| 0:09.2 | We had the division of the SDWorks assets last year with Demi Vowler and going across to this team |
| 0:15.8 | in one of the biggest transfers in all of cycling. |
| 0:19.1 | We'll discuss how that went in the first year, their |
| 0:22.1 | transfers for next year, their results, and also what we expect of them. Because we've, yeah, |
| 0:29.6 | women's world tour is having more structural changes than maybe the men's world tour. Just on that |
| 0:37.2 | point, it might be good in maybe the biggest women's team to say that, but men's world tour. Just on that point, might be good in maybe the biggest women's team to say that, |
| 0:40.2 | but men's world tour, you can only skip one race every trianium, the same race, |
| 0:45.5 | one race per year. |
| 0:47.3 | Women's World Tour used to be able to skip a lot more races. |
| 0:51.0 | So you'd see almost no World Tour teams in the Chinese races or in Tudananda, |
| 0:56.1 | very thin fields. That's changed. That puts big pressure on these teams. And that's why I think |
| 1:02.1 | when we're analyzing these rosters, previously we were just like, okay, you got Demi and four |
| 1:07.7 | other good riders, you're chill and you can be the best team. Now you have to attend all these extra world tour races. That depth matters a lot more. So we'll get into that discussion about this team. But how do you rate their 2025 season, Benjamin? Well, you hinted that already. We had a pretty major shift in this team at the start of 2025, which was the coming of Dimi Voting, but not only |
| 1:28.6 | Dimi Voting, also Labu and Shabby and a couple of other riders. So we expected this team to become |
| 1:34.4 | better. Before 2025 and 2024, they had, they had 13 victories in total in 2024, four |
| 1:41.1 | World Tour ones. That obviously has expanded in 2025, and you'd expect that to be expanded. 22 victories with 11 World Tour ones. That obviously has expanded in 2025 and you'd expect that to be expanded. |
| 1:46.6 | 22 victories with 11 World Tour wins. |
| 1:49.3 | That is, to be honest, the expectation. |
| 1:52.0 | But is that less or more than expectation? |
| 1:54.6 | We'll see because I want to go through the individual results right now and see whether |
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