A New Team After Leaving Cannondale

Jolanda Neff’s athletic future has been settled. The Swiss Olympic champion will join the Belgian WorldTour team Fenix-Premier Tech for the 2027 season. The team officially confirmed the 33-year-old’s signing on Thursday and announced a contract for the 2027 and 2028 seasons.

The move comes following the announced dissolution of Cannondale Factory Racing. The American bicycle manufacturer is disbanding its traditional mountain bike factory team and will instead focus on a broader athlete program under the name Cannondale Rogues.

For Neff, the transfer does not mean saying goodbye to mountain biking. Fenix-Premier Tech takes a multidisciplinary approach and allows its riders to compete in mountain biking, cyclocross, and road racing.

Teammate with Pieterse

With this move, Neff will become a teammate of Puck Pieterse. The Dutch rider is one of the most versatile athletes in international cycling, competing at the highest level in mountain biking, cyclocross, and road racing. In 2024, she became the cross-country world champion.

The two world champions bring different experiences to the table. While Pieterse has successfully mastered the transition between disciplines in recent years, Neff looks back on a long career with successes on virtually every surface.

The team will also include up-and-coming talents Lise Revol from France and Barbora Bukovská from the Czech Republic. Both also excel off-road, underscoring the Belgian team’s multidisciplinary focus.

Looking Forward to a New Challenge

Neff herself is enthusiastic about her new employer and particularly highlights the opportunity to continue competing in various disciplines.

“I’m very excited to join Fenix-Premier Tech, a team that combines world-class mountain biking, cyclocross, and road racing. I’ll give it my all and look forward to becoming a better rider in every respect and sharing my experiences with other riders. I’ve always admired how this team strongly promotes women’s cycling and creates professional structures for women. At the same time, it develops young riders with a long-term vision. I hope to make a valuable contribution to Fenix-Premier Tech and can’t wait to finally start racing.”

Return to Road Racing Is Not Uncharted Territory

For Neff, a greater commitment to road cycling would not be a first. She rode for Rabobank-Liv Giant as early as 2013, and in 2019 she was part of the Trek-Segafredo roster, combining road races with mountain bike competitions.

Her results on asphalt are also impressive. In 2015 and 2018, she won the Swiss Road Race Championships. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she finished eighth; that same year, she placed third in the Italian classic Trofeo Alfredo Binda.

Neff most recently demonstrated her versatility in cyclocross as well. In the winter of 2025–2026, she finished fifth at the World Cup in Namur and sixth at the World Championships in Hulst.

Mountain biking remains part of Neff’s future

After her 2021 Olympic victory in Tokyo, Neff had to contend with various health setbacks. She achieved her last podium finish in the Cross-Country World Cup in 2022 in Val di Sole.

With Fenix-Premier Tech, she now has the opportunity to realign her career and capitalize on her versatility. The combination of mountain biking, cyclocross, and road racing is part of the team’s athletic concept.

Exactly what Neff’s 2027 racing calendar will look like has not yet been determined. However, her comments suggest that she has no intention of limiting herself to a single discipline. This means the Olympic champion is likely to continue competing in the Mountain Bike World Cup in the future.

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