Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe loses sports director who had only been appointed 3 months ago

Tony Gallopin was recruited by Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe to strengthen the core of sports directors. The 37-year-old Frenchman first held that position for Lotto but decided to switch to the German squad. He was announced at his new team on 1 October 2025, but now he has already said farewell. So the collaboration lasted just three months.

It comes as a bolt out of the blue, especially because the Frenchman had just recently joined the team. You might then ask whether something happened, but Gallopin himself explains to L’Équipe that it was a decision that in no way had anything to do with problems at Red Bull. It was a purely personal move for the former rider, who is now stepping away from top-level sport.

Gallopin became a professional in 2010 with Cofidis, after which he moved to Radioshack-Nissan in 2012. On that team, he won the Clásica San Sebastián. After two years in American service he found his place with the Belgian Lotto Soudal, where he achieved his biggest success: he took the yellow jersey in Stage 9 of the 2014 Tour de France, lost it a day later, but then won the stage the following day.

He also won a stage in the Vuelta a España, a stage in Paris-Nice and the GP Wallonie. In 2023 he stopped racing, after which he became a team director at Lotto Dstny. He remained there for two years, after which he chose the German adventure. That turned out to be of short duration.