After the Cofidis team were relegated from the WorldTour at the end of the 2023-2025 ranking period, the French outfit made sweeping changes to their management and calendar that have turned their fortunes around.
Under new General Manager Raphael Jeune, Cofidis have already won six times this year – most recently winning stage 4 of the Presidential Tour of Turkey with Stanisław Aniołkowski – and are ranked 13th in the most recent UCI Team Rankings.
“Losing the WorldTour license was a difficult moment for the whole team,” Aniołkowski told Wielerflits.nl. “But our sponsor still has faith in us. We had three less-than-good years, and eventually we were relegated by a margin of only 300 points [actually 397 -ed], I believe. We kept fighting until the final races in China and Japan, but unfortunately, it didn’t work out. That was a lesson for us.”
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