Nicolas Edet is back on the bike for a new season! The cyclist from La Ferté-Bernard is back in the professional peloton with his new team, Arkéa Samsic. After eleven years with Cofidis, he signed up for two years with the Breton team. At 34, this could be his last seasons and after months of trouble, Nicolas Edet intends to take full advantage of it because he was not spared last year. Victim of a double arm fracture on the Giro d’Italia, then affected by Covid in January, it remained almost nine months without running. “This has not been easy. Fortunately, things are much better. But I still have some after-effects, some pain in my arm and a few more physio sessions, but it allows me to ride my bike again almost as before.“.
Objective: accompany Quintana and Barguil in the mountains
The page is turned. New season, new team and new goals: “The first is above all to make me happy. I’ve missed it lately. The first few days in February, I was quite apprehensive. After such a long absence, you have to measure yourself against the others and then you wonder how it’s going to be in the peloton because it’s not the same as watching the races in front of the TV as I could do it lately. So I’m really happy to have been able to put on my first bib and to learn to discover the guys and to be alongside the great runners Warren Barguil, Nacer Bouhanni and Nairo Quintana”.
Two people from Sarth at Arkéa Samsic
To facilitate his integration into Arkéa Samsic, Nicolas Edet can count on his teammate Alan Riou, also from Sarth. “It’s super nice. There must be seven or eight kilometers between our homes. We can train together and then it makes me happy to share my experience with him.“. The situation is therefore ideal for Nicolas Edet who hopes to succeed in accompanying his leaders Barguil and Quintana during the mountain stages as he did successfully last weekend on the tour of the Alpes Maritimes and the Var (race won by the Colombian rider). the circuit of the Sarthe (April 5-8). “I do not know yet. My team will be there but I don’t know if I will be selected, it will depend on the team’s choices“.