Press release

Team ARKEA-B&B HOTELS and Florian Sénéchal would like to jointly apologise for the comments made on Sunday 7 April at the finish of Paris-Roubaix.

Team ARKEA-B&B HOTELS would also like to make the following clarifications regarding the statements made by its rider to the media on Sunday :

- Following discussions between Bianchi and the technical staff of the team, it emerged that the specific instructions provided by Bianchi for assembling the handlebars of bikes were disregarded in some cases, causing disparities in the handling of the bicycles in competition.

- Bianchi is a long-established, forward-thinking bicycle brand with an innovative, high-performance research and development department that puts the safety of all those who use its bikes first.

The ARKEA-B&B HOTELS team, its General Manager Emmanuel Hubert, and all the riders of the three structures would like to reaffirm their total confidence in Bianchi bikes, which have already allowed to win seven races this season: five men's road races, one women's race and the French Cyclo-cross Championship, as well as recently finishing 2nd in the Tour of Flanders with Luca Mozzato.