Emmanuel Hubert: ‘This season has been one of premieres'

NewsJan 10, 2025

Emmanuel Hubert, General Manager of the ARKEA-B&B HOTELS teams, reviews the 2024 season and looks ahead to 2025 with Julien Carmona, Chairman of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, and Marine Charles, Managing Director Western Europe of B&B HOTELS.

Julien Carmona:

"I would like to congratulate Emmanuel Hubert and the riders in our three World Tour, Women's and Development teams on a fine 2024 season. I'd also like to thank all the members of the staff and management team, who play a decisive role in both individual and collective performance.

The season that has now come to an end will have a special place in our shared history, as it saw the team score its first ever victory in the Tour de France, thanks to Kevin Vauquelin. It's a magnificent achievement, given the ever-increasing competition in the peloton, and one which I hope will inspire others.

The 2025 season promises to be an exciting one, and should enable our teams to shine on many different fronts. The men's and women's Tour de France will be returning to Brittany and the team will be able to count on strong popular support. I hope that the ARKEA-B&B HOTELS team will continue to provide us with great sporting thrills and that it will continue to grow at the highest level, in particular by giving young talent a chance."

Marine Charles:

"2024 will go down as a great year for our Arkéa-B&B HOTELS team. We have experienced some powerful moments that have marked our season, such as Kévin Vauquelin's feat during the 2ᵉ stage of the Tour de France in Bologna. This victory reflects the determination and daring of our cyclists, as well as the collective strength of a passionate team.

As we look ahead to 2025, our logo is proudly displayed on the Excalibur kit of the riders in the World Tour, Development and Women's teams. This jersey is much more than a cycling outfit: it's a new suit of armour that we can't wait to see in action to proudly represent the employees, hoteliers and customers of B&B HOTELS, throughout France and abroad."

Emmanuel Hubert

General Manager

The year 2024 brought us great satisfaction on the sporting front with the entry of ARKEA-B&B HOTELS into the pantheon of stage-winning cycling teams on the roads of the Tour de France for men. A first chapter written in Bologna by Kévin Vauquelin, and one that will inevitably lead to others. In addition to the Tour, this season was also one of firsts, with Luca Mozzato taking second place in the Tour of Flanders, a race that is classified as a cycling monument. Kévin Vauquelin also thrilled us all the way to the top of the terrible Mur de Huy at the Flèche Wallonne, taking second place in this Ardennes classic. The riders in the ARKEA-B&B HOTELS women's team also raised their game on the roads of the Tour de France with a second place in Le Grand Bornand, and the revelation at the highest level of Valentina Cavallar after only a few months in the professional pelotons. ARKEA-B&B HOTELS is also a continental development structure within which the future is shaped. This is where the Breton nuggets of tomorrow are trained, but not only those from our region, because our sport today is increasingly international, even if we are keen to keep our roots intact. Our ‘training centre’ also enables a number of riders to pursue a dual project of sport and study. These young riders have given us some very satisfying results, not least the victory on home soil in the Kreiz Breizh Élites, which echoed a few months later the magnificent success achieved by Jenthe Biermans in the Route Adélie in Vitré. Youth, the future, that's what we're banking on in the ARKEA-B&B HOTELS team, with riders with great potential such as Ewen Costiou and Mathis Le Berre, who need to make further progress in the 2025 season, or Titia Ryo and Océane Mahé, who are supported by established leaders such as Arnaud Démare, Florian Sénéchal, Cristián Rodríguez, Emilia Fahlin and Lotte Claes. Our aim in 2025 will be to maintain our place in the World Tour and to support the rise of our riders in the Women's ProTeam division, not by scoring UCI points, but by focusing on performance and the quest for results wherever we are involved, with the aim of making the red and black colours of our Breton partners, ARKEA and B&B HOTELS, shine. Let's run and ride boldly. Of course, we also want to shine on the roads of the Tour de France, particularly in Brittany with this historic double passage through the West for the men's and women's Tour.

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