Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is in a relationship with a star of the peloton, winner of Paris-Roubaix

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, Olympic mountain bike champion, is in a relationship with a former winner of the famous race.

Pauline Ferrand Prévot was the overwhelming favorite to win the mountain bike title at the Paris Olympics last year. A five-time world champion in cross-country, the mountain biking discipline featured at the Games, she has also won seven other world championship titles in mountain biking, one in cyclo-cross, one in gravel, and one on the road.

While she didn't perform well in the three Olympics she participated in, failing to win a medal, she put on a real show at these home Games, winning the cross-country event by a wide margin, one of the highlights of the Paris Olympics. Now back on the road, with an incredible victory in Paris-Roubaix for her first participation, she is competing in the women's Tour de France, hoping to win the yellow jersey.

But high-level sport often invades athletes' private lives, to the point where couples form very regularly within the same discipline. While the couple formed by Marion Rousse and Julian Alaphilippe regularly makes headlines in the cycling world, Pauline Ferrand Prévot also has a beautiful romance with a cycling enthusiast. A rider from the Visma | Lease a Bike team. This is the Dutchman Dylan Van Baarle.

Born Pauline Ferrand Prévot in 1992, Dylan Van Baarle began his professional career in 2011. A model teammate in Team Sky and then Ineos of Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal, he was recruited by Jonas Vingegaard's team at the end of the 2022 season, the best of his career. He notably finished second in the Tour of Flanders that season behind Matthieu van der Poel, and won his first Monument by soloing Paris-Roubaix. A title that his partner also won in 2025.

Dutch road champion in 2023 and time trial champion in 2018, he also has the 2021 edition of À travers la Flandre to his name. Although he missed the 2024 Tour de France due to a withdrawal following a crash on the Dauphiné, Dylan van Baarle is expected to be in Paris, like Pauline Ferrand Prévot, for the Olympic Games, as part of the Dutch road cycling team.