Pogacar, Roglic, Bardet, Gaudu… what do the partners and wives of the stars of the Tour de France look like? (PHOTOS)

Life as a cyclist’s wife is not easy. In an interview with Figaro, Bernard Hinaultthe last French winner of the Tour de France, now a happy grandfather, declared about his wife: “She has only seen me three months a year for 42 years.“. Between winter training courses in the sun or at altitude, training and races all over the world, A professional cyclist spends around 1500 hours per year on his bike. If we add to his absences, the immense risk, sometimes fatal, that they run every time they mount their machine, one supposes that being the wife or the companion of one of them is not a sinecure.

Marion Rousse, France Télévisions consultant and partner of Julian Alaphilippe – who will not be doing the Tour this year – has attested to this, having been through some terrible times. Of course, there are the compensations, the pretty houses in Andorra or Monaco – or the farm in the countryside in the case of the newly retired Thibaut Pinot – where cycling stars often take up residence, but it is not an easy role. As the Tour de France sets off today, Purepeople invites you to get to know its shadow supporters who often come to reward their happy or unhappy heroes with a kiss, sometimes battered after the finish line.

Tadej Pogacar

He is the favourite for the Tour and he will not be alone in his attempt to win it again. Alongside his powerful UAE team, he can count on the unwavering support of his compatriot and fiancée Urška Žigart. A professional cyclist, like him, he met her at the Slovenian team training camp in 2017. Since then, they have often separated to each pursue their own careers, which has caused great concern on both sides, but they always meet up, particularly in Monaco, where the 25-year-old champion and his 27-year-old girlfriend now live.

Romain Bardet leads “a quiet life” with Amandine and their son Angus

Romain Bardet

The second of the Grande Boucle in 2016 will be departing this year for the last time and there is no doubt thatAmandine Cidwho has shared his life since 2012 and whom he became the husband of in 2017, – on a day that was also very special for the Frenchman Warren Barguil – will be at his side as well as their son Angusborn in 2020. Originally from Auvergne, like her champion, Amandine also comes from a family of cyclists.We lead a quiet life. We don’t go out every night, although we’re not against the idea of ​​having a drink from time to time…” confided the young woman, a fine cook who at the time shared her helthy recipes on a blog, about life with Romain.

David Gaudu

The Breton will once again be at the forefront of the French riders this year, but there is a strong chance thatAlexandra Le Jouanardremains in the background. In a relationship with the leader of the Loterythis young woman, passionate about animals like him, and interior decoration, is the owner of a luxury real estate agency in Monaco, not far from Menton where they both now live.

Christophe Laporte

He will still be one of the faithful lieutenants of Jonas Vingegaardbut Christophe Laporte could shine as usual on one or more stages. The 31-year-old native of La Seyne-sur-Mer will be able to count on a great little team to support him. With Marion Sainglin, his sweetheart, with whom he is in a civil partnership, he is the happy father of two boys Marlo, born in November 2019 and Billy. Graduated with a Master’s degree in business law In 2015, the sublime brunette now works in the Var for a real estate development company.

Primoz Roglic is an “easy-going man” according to his wife Lora

Primoz Roglic

He has won the Giro d’Espagne three times, the Giro d’Italia once, but the Tour de France still resists the Slovenian. He will be taking part in the Tour this year for the sixth time, encouraged by his wife Lora KlincThe cyclist met her when he was still practicing his first sport, skiing.As I was athletic, I understand his life even if he is often far from home and I find myself most of the time alone with our son. I also know that he needs our presence to perform well so I often go to the races“, confided to our colleagues at Le quotidien du sport Lev and Aleks’s motherthe two sons she had with the team leader Bora-Hansgrohe. A man “easy to live“, she said, with whom she has now moved to Monaco.

Remco Evenepoel

The young Belgian prodigy, already winner of the Tour of Spain, is taking to the roads of the Tour de France for the first time in his career. And he dreams of wearing the yellow jersey in Nice where, for once, the arrival will be judged, because of the Olympic Games in Paris. He could then fall into the arms ofOumaïma Rayane, his partner since 2017 and whom he married two years ago. A sublime young woman whom he met many years ago when they were neighbors. Oumi, as she calls herselfgraduated in Economic Sciences from the Free University of Brussels and today shares her taste for fashion on her social networks. They live in Calpe, in the south of Spain..

Egan Bernal

The Colombian rider of the team Ineos-Grenadierswinner of the Tour in 2019 almost lost his wife, Mafe Motas in 2021 when she left after seeing him in the arms of another. But the runner is a fighter. To get his beautiful brunette back, he apologized publicly and it worked. It must be said that he had a lot to lose. Very sporty, a cyclist too, Mafe has a nicely made head, and quite full since she is graduate in veterinary medicineThe young woman, also Colombian, lives with her champion in Monaco.

Geraint Thomas

The 38-year-old English rider will be among the oldest riders in the peloton of this Tour, which he won in 2018. He had already shared the title for 11 years the life of sara elenoriginally from Wales like him and who succumbed to his charms while she was a psychology student in Liverpool. The photo has not yet arrived on their social networks but it is almost certain that this year again, Sara will take a pair of scissors to cut the small curls of her husband’s hair… before he left for the big one. A question of superstition.