Tour de France 2026: Route and stages
The 113th edition of the Tour de France will start on 4 July in Barcelona with a team time trial. The first three stages of La Grande Boucle will all take place on Catalan soil, with the Pyrenees already featuring in the opening week. Later in the race, Le Lioran, Le Markstein, the Orcières-Merlette ski resort and Alpe d’Huez all make their return to the Tour. The race will finish on Sunday 26 July, with a finale on the cobbles of Montmartre in Paris.
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Tour de France 2026: GC Favourites
Tadej Pogacar is the best rider of his generation and possibly the greatest of all time. Yet Jonas Vingegaard has already got the better of him twice in the Tour de France. Who will come out on top this time?
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Tour de France 2026: Riders
The best cyclists in the world go head to head in the greatest cycling contest on the planet. Paul Seixas, Remco Evenepoel, Florian Lipowitz and Jonas Vingegaard try to prevent Tadej Pogacar from claiming his fifth victory, while Mathieu van der Poel and Mads Pedersen are among those hunting for stage wins. Voilà, the start list for the 113th edition of the Tour de France.
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Tour de France 2026 Favourites stage 1: Looking for the best finisher
The yellow jersey awaits the rider who who posts the fastest time on the team time trial course. Given the 7% gradient over the final 800 metres, the punchy climbers will almost certainly drop their team-mates in the finale in an attempt to ride into yellow.
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Tour de France 2026 Favourites stage 2: A puncher’s paradise
Stage 2 of the Tour comes to a head on a hilly circuit in Barcelona, tackled three times by the riders, each lap featuring two sharp, punchy climbs. The first is 1.6 kilometres at 9.3%, and the second, which doubles as the finish, is 600 metres at 7%.
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Tour de France 2026 Favourites stage 3: Yellow jersey for the taking
Assuming the overall favourites have already fought it out for the yellow jersey over the first two days, stage 3 offers an ideal opportunity to pass it on to a lesser light. The Tour is still long, and the Pyrenean stage is demanding, but not enough to turn it into a battle among the giants.
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Tour de France 2026 Favourites stage 4: Half the peloton rolls the dice
Stage 4 of the Tour de France is one to watch. It is the sort of stage where half the peloton fancies its chances of the stage win, and that usually leads to a spectacle.
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