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| Team information | |
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| UCI code |
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| Registered | France |
| Founded | 2000 (2000) |
| Discipline | Road |
| Status |
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| Bicycles | Enve (2024–) |
| Website | Team home page |
| Key personnel | |
| General manager | Jean-René Bernaudeau |
| Team name history | |
2000–2002 2003–2004 2005–2008 2009–2010 2011–2015 2016–2019 2019–2021 2021– | Bonjour Brioches La Boulangère Bouygues Télécom Bbox Bouygues Telecom Team Europcar Direct Énergie Total Direct Énergie Team TotalEnergies |
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Team TotalEnergies (UCI team code:TEN) is a professionalroad bicycle racingteam that competes as aUCI ProTeam inUCI Continental Circuits races, andUCI World Tour races when invited as awild card entry. In previous years, the team was known asBrioches La Boulangère,Bonjour,Bouygues Télécom,Bbox Bouygues Telecom andEuropcar. The 2015 season was the last under the sponsorship ofEuropcar. The team has been sponsored byDirect Énergie since 2016.[1]
The team was founded in 1984 asSystème U. The team disbanded in 1985 but returned in 1986 under new management.Cyrille Guimard became thedirecteur sportif, bringing his protégéLaurent Fignon. A change of sponsor in 1990 renamed the teamCastorama.
In 1992, Guimard becamemanager of the team. In 1995,Jean-René Bernaudeau, a former professional racer, became director of the team. From 1996 to 1999, the team withdrew from top-level competition. Bernaudeau set up a development team in theVendée region calledVendée U.
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In 2000, the team again became a professional teamBonjour, still under the control of thesporting director Bernaudeau. In 2003, the team became "Brioches La Boulangère", then "Bouygues Télécom" in 2005. The amateur teamVendée U still acts as feeder team for the professional team.
AsBonjour and Brioches La Boulangère, the team gained prominence with promising young starsFabrice Salanson,Thomas Voeckler andSylvain Chavanel. Salanson's death due to heart disease in 2003 was a blow to the team. Voeckler wore the yellow jersey as leader of thegeneral classification for 10 days in the2004 Tour de France while also French national champion and became a national hero.
The team competes mainly in French races. Chavanel left the team in 2005 to joinCofidis.
On 29 September 2009, Bbox Bouygues Telecom along withCofidis were not allowed to renew their ProTour licenses due to poor results.[2]
Intheir first season post-relegation, the team made showings at some grand tours, winning several stages and holding various classification jerseys. They had particular success in the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France. However, sponsorship questions and unmet desires to rejoin the top tier, continued to dog the team.
In late 2010, following a lengthy struggle to secure a sponsor for the 2011 season,Europcar was confirmed as the replacement, after assurances that then- French National ChampionThomas Voeckler would remain with the team,[3] but the guarantee of the team's future, so late that it necessitated an extension of the usual UCI deadline for licence application, was too late to retain the services ofPierrick Fédrigo andNicolas Vogondy. Voeckler's contract is worth over 400,000 euros a year, second only toSylvain Chavanel among French riders, although he had been offered nearly twice as much to leave Bernadeau's team and joinCofidis for the 2011 season.[4][5][6]
Following these sponsorship questions, the teamhad its best year to date in 2011, winning stages inParis–Nice and theCritérium du Dauphiné (in which they also took the team competition). In July, Thomas Voeckler won and held the overall lead in theTour of France for 10 days; support riderPierre Rolland received accolades for his defense of Voeckler,[7] and later took a stage victory on the famousAlpe d'Huez climb, leading to the race's overallwhite jersey title.[8] The team also fieldedYohann Gène, the first black rider in the Tour.[9] Europcar hoped that its new higher profile will allow it compete internationally in 2012 and sign more notable riders.[10]
Team Europcar failed to achieve World Tour status for the second year. Nevertheless, the team showed strong early-season form, taking second at the renownedParis–Roubaix withSébastien Turgot, and then winning the next classic on the schedule, as Thomas Voeckler rode solo to victory for 30 kilometers at theBrabantse Pijl.[11][12][13] Following that result, the team continued their spring success with top-five showings from Voeckler in both Ardennes Week classics, theAmstel Gold andLiège–Bastogne–Liège.[14]
The squadsent to Gabon also enjoyed stage victories in late April from both Géne and Voeckler, whileAnthony Charteau won the overall lead for the third year running;[15][16][17] and in Europe team sprinterMatteo Pelucchi took a stagein Dunkerque at the beginning of May.
In April the team received awildcard invitation to theTour de France, along with three other French-registered teams.[18] In the Tour, Europcar rider Voeckler won stages 10 and 16 and theKing of the Mountains jersey, and Pierre Rolland won stage 11.
Although negotiations with lead sponsor Europcar to extend their sponsorship beyond the end of the season have so far been unsuccessful,[19] the team began their season with strong showings in some early races, seeingYohann Gène taking a stage as well as winning the overall classification atLa Tropicale Amissa Bongo, the team's fourth successive overall victory in Gabon.[20][21] The team later took three successive stage wins at theÉtoile de Bessèges, withBryan Coquard winning the second and fourth stages,[22][23] andJérôme Cousin winning the third stage.[24]
Coquard took two wins at theTour de Langkawi, winning stages eight and nine. In the team's first World Tour appearance of the season, atParis–Nice,Damien Gaudin achieved a victory in the race-opening prologue. Gaudin won theCholet-Pays de Loire single-day race, later in March, whileAnthony Charteau won the fourth stage of theTour de Normandie. In April,Pierre Rolland won the penultimate stage of theCircuit de la Sarthe, en route to winning the race overall.[25]
Cyril Gautier won theTour du Finistère from an eight-rider breakaway move, whileNatnael Berhane won the queen stage of theTour of Turkey, finishing the race second overall the first place on the General Classification was awarded to Berhane after an anti-doping rule violation.[26] Coquard's good performances saw him take the lead of theUCI Europe Tour, and continued his form into may, winning the second stage of theTour de Picardie.
In June,David Veilleux soloed to an opening stage victory at theCritérium du Dauphiné, whileThomas Voeckler also won a stage at the race. Gène won the second stage of theRoute du Sud, and Voeckler took the queen stage of the race the following day, going on to win the race overall. Veilleux continued his form into the Boucles de la Mayenne, winning the race overall. In August,Angelo Tulik achieved his first professional victory by winning the final stage of the inaugural Tour des Fjords. Coquard won his first one-day race, by winning theChâteauroux Classic to take the lead of theFrench Road Cycling Cup fromFDJ.fr riderAnthony Geslin. Voeckler won the penultimate stage time trial of theTour du Poitou-Charentes, to take the overall lead of the race. He maintained the lead until the end, to win the race for the second time.
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France Road Race Championships, Didier Rous France Road Race Championships, Didier Rous France Road Race Championships, Thomas Voeckler France Road Race Championships, Pierrick Fédrigo
Netherlands Time Trial Championships, Stef Clement
Estonia Road Race Championship, Erki Pütsep Netherlands Time Trial Championship, Stef Clement France Road Race Championships, Thomas Voeckler France Time Trial Championships, Nicolas Vogondy France Time Trial Championships, Christophe Kern
Japan Road Race Championships, Yukiya Arashiro
Eritrea Time Trial Championships, Natnael Berhane
Namibian Road Race Championships, Dan Craven Estonia Time Trial Championships, Rein Taaramäe
