Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours

[Cycling111]

Remco is signed because he is remco and because bora has suddenly loads of money to throw at riders.

He should do the races he agrees with the team with the intention of winning.

The giro is a great race and he can win. He doesn't have giro in his palmares, even a podium. Why should he go ride around another boring predictable tour de France for 4th place on GC at best? The team has lipovitz for that

Yes and Pogacar is Pogacar, and he's contractually obligated to go to the Tour.

Red Bull signs him to go to races like the Tour.

Anyway, he won't win the Giro against Vingegaard, and that would be worse.

 

[Rou]

Yes and Pogacar is Pogacar, and he's contractually obligated to go to the Tour.

No, he's not. You keep repeating false claims.
If he wants he can skip the Tour and the team can't and won't sanction him.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I can take Remco's place in the Tour team. Prudhomme will get his wish fulfilled when he sees me crack hard on Sarenne.

 

[Netserk]

Formally, June.

Informally, all stages will be traced and published later today by fans.

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[RobertCrawley]

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[Pantani_lives]

Starting in Spain means that the Pyrenees come early, so they didn't make them very tough, to prevent an all too early decision - although stage 6 shouldn't be underestimated. It also means that there are no stages in northern France. Some of the sprinters might decide to stay at home. For specialists of the classics stage 2 looks like an opportunity.

This year there were five tough MTFs. Next year the toughest MTFs are the Col de Solaison and L'Alpe d'Huez. This is however a Tour with lots of climbing, but the toughest climbs are further from the finish. This invites GC riders to attack before the final climb. The organizers are hoping that the gaps won't get too big in the first two weeks, so the suspense remains until the queen stage on the penultimate day. We'll see how that works out.

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[Netserk]

Starting in Spain means that the Pyrenees come early, so they didn't make them very tough, to prevent an all too early decision - although the Aubisque stage shouldn't be underestimated

Aubisque is not in the route.

 

[proffate]

Red Bull signs him to go to races like the Tour.

Pretty sure red bull signed him bc of what he has done at a lot of races that are not the tour.

 

[TrekCyclist]

I hope Remco doesn't do the Tour. He is a star rider and shouldn't be forced to only 'participate' for the sponsors.
Full focus and all in for the Giro and Vuelta.

He still could be a valuable support to Lipowitz in the Tour. If he is ready mentally for it.

 

[red_flanders]

Pretty sure red bull signed him bc of what he has done at a lot of races that are not the tour.

The press release: https://www.redbull.com/us-en/remco-evenepoel-joins-red-bull-bora-hansgrohe

“Remco stands for ambition. He doesn’t just want to ride – he wants to shape cycling,” Ralph Denk, Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe CEO said. “He brings not only exceptional athletic talent, but also a remarkable mindset. His determination, professionalism, and relentless drive to succeed are truly inspiring.”

Evenepoel’s arrival marks a significant step in Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe’s continued evolution as a Grand Tour contender. With Evenepoel joining the roster next season, the Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe is building a Tour team that will be fierce competition for years to come.

It would stand to reason it's both things of course. They also mention his Olympic successes. But the above seems a fairly clear statement of why they hired him. Does that mean the Tour exactly? Open to interpretation, as they mention Grand Tours. But they seem to specifically call out Le Tour. So I'm not saying you're wrong, but...hard to image the Tour isn't a lot of it.

 

[Tim Cahill]

It's a top top parcours for Simon Yates

Only 1 race left to win!

 

[Netserk]

I don't think you can get stage 20 as it is without stage 19. I think it's a good bundle, even if it would necessarily squash stage 18. Say the alternative is a better stage 18, breakaway stage on 19, and then stage 20 finishes with the traditional ascent of Alpe d'Huez.

Explicitly confirmed now:

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[KZD]

A worse route than 2024 and 2025. One positive aspect is that apart from the second weekend, the rest of weekend stages should be interesting but this just feels like a watered down and backloaded route without enough hard stages for a Grand Tour. Also, despite being a backloaded route if everything goes according to plan, Pogačar is going to decide the race on stages 14-15 like he did on 2024. The lack of a flat TT is also very disappointing, a GT should always have one of those. Glad to have L'Alpe d'Huez back though and stage 2 is a nice hilly stage.

Overall 5/10

 

[chickenlips]

Pretty sure red bull signed him bc of what he has done at a lot of races that are not the tour.

Be a bit boring just winning ITT's. 😁

 

[Valv.Piti]

Well normal Alpe d' Huez is by no means a bad MTF, and its absolutely great for spectators, especially when they are doing it twice. Nothing wrong with that IMO.

I hoped stage 5 and 17 would be a bit harder, but its possible that we will see some action into Pau and stage 17 might just be a break anyways. Only 4 really pure sprint stages

I really, really like the opening 6 days, and I like the fact that there are lots of opportunies for the break which the Tour has lacked recently.

 

[Lorzenz08]

Take a pause and read what has been written carefully.

Pogacar is not a fresh w/kg specialist as his most supreme performances have been at the end of hard efforts that have destroyed everyone else.

Roglic is a much better example of a fresh w/kg specialist and it is not a contradiction to say that even in those efforts Pogacar is still very clearly a lot better than Roglic.

To be honest he didn't have much opportunity to show he is or he is not...

And what kind of performance you think he is not able to execute which would prove he is not a fresh w/kg specialist ?

 

[Cookster15]

They put proper climbs on the TDF route. Waste of time for him!

This stage did not have proper climbs? Jonas was dragged to the line at Isola 2000 by Remco.

Tour de France 2024 Stage 19 results

Tour de France 2024 Stage 19 from Embrun to Isola 2000 was won by Tadej PogaÄar before Matteo Jorgenson and Simon Yates. Tadej PogaÄar was leading the general classification.

www.procyclingstats.com

The giro is a great race and he can win

I suppose you might have been joking about the TDF route but I also assume there are proper climbs in the 2026 Giro parcours?

I tend to think 2025 TDF Remco was an anomaly and we are more likely to see 2024 TdF climbing Remco again in 2026.

 

[Cookster15]

Interested to know what people think of stage 20 - back side of Alpe D'Huez?

Looking at the profile, seems not really a MTF that side, but preceded by three very tough climbs of Télégraphe/Galibier, Croix de Fer and Sarenne so that would be a completely different way to arrive at the Alpe.

 

[CyclistAbi]

I don't like on how they always change the rules in terms of TTT. That is rather amateurish.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Of course Vingegaard is the man to beat. But with some more TTs in the Giro Evenepoel will have much better chances than in the Tour.

If Vingegaard is there, his chances are probably around 15%. These 15% are explained by potential crashes and Vingegaard never crashed out from a GT.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Remco is signed because he is remco and because bora has suddenly loads of money to throw at riders.

He should do the races he agrees with the team with the intention of winning.

The giro is a great race and he can win. He doesn't have giro in his palmares, even a podium. Why should he go ride around another boring predictable tour de France for 4th place on GC at best? The team has lipovitz for that

According to the forum, Remco is the third best GT rider right now (almost tied with Almeida though) so without Almeida in the TdF as a contender, he is clearly the third favorite to win the Tour. So 4th on GC at best seems pessimistic.

 

[CyclistAbi]

Stage 18, finishing on Orcières-Merlette, that is something for Rogla to underline, as his last Tour stage victory dates all the way back to the Tour 2020 edition, on where he outsprinted Pogi on this climb.

There are some pointy stages, at the very end, at this Tour edition and that should be favourable too.

Vrhunec Toura 2026 – kar dvakrat na Alpe d'Huez, kjer bosta cilja 19. in 20. etape

113. Dirka po Franciji bo prihodnje leto potekala od 4. julija v Barceloni do 25. julija v Parizu, vmes Tadeja Pogačarja in izzivalce čaka 3333 km in 54.450 višinskih metrov ter kopica izzivov, ob koncu tudi dve etapi s ciljem na slovitem Alpe d'Huezu.

www.rtvslo.si

 

[red_flanders]

Interested to know what people think of stage 20 - back side of Alpe D'Huez?

Looking at the profile, seems not really a MTF that side, but preceded by three very tough climbs of Télégraphe/Galibier, Croix de Fer and Sarenne so that would be a completely different way to arrive at the Alpe.

Probably the most interesting mountain stage to me, as I've never seen that approach. Looks like a really tough day out. I can see not calling it a MTF given the...I guess..."rolling" road after the last col, but it looks like one super punchy climb at the end going into town.

Gonna be destruction.

 

[Cookster15]

Probably the most interesting mountain stage to me, as I've never seen that approach. Looks like a really tough day out. I can see not calling it a MTF given the...I guess..."rolling" road after the last col, but it looks like one super punchy climb at the end going into town.

Gonna be destruction.

Thanks for that. Hard to see that punchy final in the race profile. Also hard to see Pogacar being beaten there, maybe Jonas can rediscover his miraculous recovery powers late in the 3rd week.