Julien Noël has resumed service. Not chosen by the Proteam Wagner Bazin WB, resulting from the merger between Bingoal-WB and Philippe Wagner-Bazin where he officiated for three years (read here), the 25 -year -old boy found a position at Nice Métropole Côte d’Azur. “Frédéric Doutre contacted me in early February. I think he needed a sports director, and he had had the knowledge that I had not been kept in my old team. Then I spoke with the manager (Jérôme Pulidori, editor’s note) And I started in the Pays de la Loire Tour region “he explains to the microphone of Directive.
The Aubois, which lives in Dijon, welcomed the news with relief. “It was important for me, I absolutely wanted to stay in the world, that’s what I like to do. It was not easy to stop like that at once. I am very grateful for the opportunity that Nice offers me”. During his few months of latency, he took the opportunity to regenerate. “I just worked on Gravel projects with Guy Gallopin towards Troyes. I didn’t have a lot next door, it allowed me to take a quieter quarter, after two or three years busy. I come back fresh on the races and I bring freshness to a team that needed someone more”.
“I have been left a lot of keys”
After the departure of Hugues Thomas, a place as sports director was vacant. “Thierry Bédard is also present but he is already well busy with the U19 academy (read here)“. At the beginning of April, he therefore made his debut in the Riviera training in the Pays de la Loire Tour region alongside Frédéric Doutre. “We worked for two. As I was not yet informed on the UCI site, I was not allowed to drive the car. I was a passenger, he let me coach the team directly. We could exchange. Frédéric was often alone and that allows him to have a little height because he has a lot of work in the team”. During the Franc-Comtois triptych, there was also Thierry Bédard. “I was in the car. The first day, he led and I coached, then it was the opposite, while Frédéric had rather came in support”.
Julien Noël likes himself in his new environment. “I was still left a lot of keys and also bring my approach, as well as my way of working. It is rewarding, I thank the team, and especially Frédéric“. He should have around forty days of racing with Nice Métropole Côte d’Azur. “I will be in particular at the 4 days of Dunkirk, the curls of Mayenne, the Sibiu Tour, the turn of the Ain, the Limousin turn or the Poitou-Charentes turn, then surely on the northern tests. This is what is planned for the moment, but we will redo the point as I have just arrived”.
