Pauline Ferrand-Prevot is set to sign a racing contract with a new off-road team that will be affiliated with Ineos Grenadiers starting in 2023. According to multiple reports, the multi-discipline world champion could become the first female rider to compete in the British team's version as part of a new off-road campaign.

Ferrand-Prevot is currently under contract with Absolut Absalon BMC for the 2021 and 2022 seasons, dropping her previous efforts in road racing and cyclocross to focus on mountain biking.

She holds three world titles at the same time, winning the elite women's XCC short track and XCO cross country in Les Gets, France in August and the XCM Marathon in Hazerslev, Denmark in September.

Phelan-Prevot is the first athlete to win all three titles in the same season and is aiming to win her fourth world title of the season at the first UCI Gravel World Championships in Veneto, Italy, on October 8.

The Ineos Grenadiers are one of the richest teams on the World Tour and have long been criticized for not building a women's team.

However, this may change with reports that with the help of sponsor Ineos, a new program is being planned that fits with Ferran-Prevot's off-road career goals. in September at ESMTB (opens in new tab) Ferran-Prevot and Ineos Following rumors of Ferran-Prevot's connection to Ineos sponsors and a possible move in 2023, reports that Ferran-Prevot may move to an Ineos-backed team were reported on Monday by Velonews (opens in new tab), CyclingWeekly (opens in new tab), Tuttobici (opens in new tab).

CyclingNews contacted Ferrand-Prevot's agent and the Ineos Grenadier team. Both declined to comment on reports that Ferrand-Prevot will join the team in 2023.

Tom Pidcock currently competes in full road racing with Ineos Grenadiers.

He is the reigning elite men's cyclocross world champion and represented Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics and the European Championships where he won gold in the XCO cross-country event.

Ferrand-Prevot has not confirmed whether he will resume his road racing and cyclocross career. Although she has devoted the past two seasons to mountain biking, she is one of the sport's most versatile riders.

She road raced with Rabobank from 2012 to 2016 and joined Canyon-SRAM from 2017 until the end of 2020. However, she has not competed in any road races since 2018, except for the French Road Championships. She was diagnosed with double iliac artery intimal fibrosis in November 2018 and underwent two separate surgeries in 2019 and 2020 to fully recover.

She won the elite women's road race world title in Ponferrada in 2014, the XCO cross-country world title in Vallnord in 2015, and the cyclo-cross world title in Tabor in 2015, all three world She made history by becoming the first cyclist to hold all three titles simultaneously.

She has won a total of nine individual elite world titles during her career, including four XCO cross-country titles (2015, 2019, 2020, 2022), two XCM marathon titles (2019, 2022), one XCC short track title (2022) are also included.

She was part of the French national team that won world titles in the team relay in 2014, 2015, and 2016, adding to an illustrious career.