Cofidis riders at the team presentation before Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Image credit: Getty Images)

After the Cofidis team were relegated from the WorldTour at the end of the 2023-2025 ranking period, the French outfit made sweeping changes to their management and calendar that have turned their fortunes around.

Under new General Manager Raphael Jeune , Cofidis have already won six times this year - most recently winning stage 4 of the Presidential Tour of Turkey with Stanisław Aniołkowski - and are ranked 13th in the most recent UCI Team Rankings.

"Losing the WorldTour license was a difficult moment for the whole team," Aniołkowski told Wielerflits.nl . "But our sponsor still has faith in us. We had three less-than-good years, and eventually we were relegated by a margin of only 300 points [actually 397 -ed], I believe. We kept fighting until the final races in China and Japan, but unfortunately, it didn't work out.…