Groupama - FDJ United 2026 Preview
Lanterne Rouge Cycling Podcast
Lanterne Rouge Media, SL
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this episode Patrick and Benji preview Groupama - FDJ United' 2026 squad.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro & 2025 recap
09:18 - Transfers
29:55 - 2026 goals & race programme
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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 Lenten Rouge Cycling Podcast for the preview of Grupauma, FDJ, United |
| 0:04.3 | 2026th season. |
| 0:06.6 | We just had big news, so we thought what better time to do this preview? |
| 0:11.0 | Mark Maddieo is out. |
| 0:14.1 | After more than 30 years, leading the team. |
| 0:19.3 | He's passing the mantle. He's giving it the uh function of general manager and just operations everything to uh what's his name tier terry cornec he'll do all the sportive stuff he's a bit younger than maddeo and madio i think yeah so there was time to pass the sportive stuff. He's a bit younger than Maddieo. And Maddieu, I think, yeah, so there was time to pass the torch. |
| 0:42.1 | And we're going to look at what's the state of the team? |
| 0:45.0 | What's their position? |
| 0:46.0 | A historic team with a hardcore fan base, one of the most popular. |
| 0:50.3 | It is considered the French team still in France, particularly with DeKathlon, their internationalization. |
| 0:57.1 | So where are they now? Where were they in 25? What have they got in the future? So their 2025 season, |
| 1:04.8 | Benji, how do you view it? Well, I want to go to the numbers first before I give our judgment. |
| 1:11.6 | 15 victories, 2 world tour victories. |
| 1:13.6 | That is compared to 15 victories, 3 world tour victories in 2024, and 19 victories, 1 |
| 1:19.6 | Wilter victory in 2023. |
| 1:21.6 | So it's never been the most winning team in terms of world tour races. |
| 1:26.6 | And actually, every year of the last three they |
| 1:30.4 | won less French Cup or French 1.1 races than I would anticipate a groupama |
| 1:35.3 | every day doing compared to some of the other French teams out there. Now if I hyper |
| 1:41.2 | focus on the individual sets of races of 2025, for example, the classics, |
| 1:48.0 | then Stefan Kuhn was the relevant rider in the Kabul classics, for example, P7 at RVV, |
| 1:53.4 | P9 at Wanderth, P6 at E3, I think Gregor maybe had a top 10 in the Hill Classics somewhere, |
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