Pauline Ferrand-Prevot’s coach Gérard Brocks has agreed with her assertion that winning world championships in three different disciplines had done her more harm than good, but backed the French rider to return to her best in 2017.
Ferrand-Prevot claimed three rainbow jerseys in the space of twelve months when she won the Worlds road race in Ponferrada in 2014, and then added the cyclo-cross and mountain bike world titles in 2015.
The Frenchwoman lined out in both the road race and mountain bike event at the Rio 2016 Olympics, but could only place 26th in the former and abandoned the latter. In a lengthy statement on social media this week, Ferrand-Prevot said that cycling had “become a nightmare” after a year plagued by injury and illness.
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“Her season was littered with setbacks, and that’s difficult to manage for an athlete like her,” Brocks told L'Equipe. Brocks returned as Ferrand-Prevot’s coach this spring after they had parted company following the 2012 campaign.
“Above all, there was her stress fracture [of the knee] over the winter, then in May she came back to having me as her coach. We tried to set off on healthy foundations, but it was very complicated because every time we made plans, there were problems.
“There was a clear improvement in the weeks before she left for Rio. She was training well and putting out almost as many watts as before her stress fracture. But psychologically, there were highs and lows, and her doubts persisted.”
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