Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours

[Red Rick]

Poster citing 2012 Tour de France as example of 'real mountain stages'.

I had to do 3 takes on that.

 

[Ulle97]

We've seen a lot of annoyance with this route. Especially with Remco fans who yearn for more ITT kms.

Here's an alternative scenario, even on this route, let's say Pogacar and Jonas didn't go to the Tour in 2026, would Remco be able to win it?
Would he be able to fight off Almeida, Ayuso or even Lipowitz on his own team?

 

[houtdffan]

Poster citing 2012 Tour de France as example of 'real mountain stages'.

I had to do 3 takes on that.

it's because we had real mountain stages that year and several of them

Just because the sky train had no competition, does not mean there weren't real mountain stages

 

[Berniece]

We've seen a lot of annoyance with this route. Especially with Remco fans who yearn for more ITT kms.

I haven’t seen that

 

[Ulle97]

I am a Remco fan. And I am annoyed😄😄
Also, I saw on the Lanterne Rouge podcast where the made a valid point. They said the only terrain in the last 2 years where any rider has had an advantage over Pog has been Remco in the TTs.
Vingo is no longer Pogacar's master or even his equal on any decisive climb. Hence, the reason for people clamouring for more ITTs to at least give Pog something to think about.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I am a Remco fan. And I am annoyed😄😄
Also, I saw on the Lanterne Rouge podcast where the made a valid point. They said the only terrain in the last 2 years where any rider has had an advantage over Pog has been Remco in the TTs.
Vingo is no longer Pogacar's master or even his equal on any decisive climb. Hence, the reason for people clamouring for more ITTs to at least give Pog something to think about.

If Remco gets anywhere close to Pogi in the mountains then we can talk about ITT kilometers. He's not even his most dangerous Tour rival now, not even close to that.

 

[Peyroteo94]

I am a Remco fan. And I am annoyed😄😄
Also, I saw on the Lanterne Rouge podcast where the made a valid point. They said the only terrain in the last 2 years where any rider has had an advantage over Pog has been Remco in the TTs.
Vingo is no longer Pogacar's master or even his equal on any decisive climb. Hence, the reason for people clamouring for more ITTs to at least give Pog something to think about.

The problem is Vingegaard is the only guy close to Pogacar in the mountains and more kms of flat TTs will increase the gap between Vingegaard and Pogacar before the mountains.
I'm all in for more TTs (I would like 2 flat TTs, each one over 40 km) but I'm pretty sure the gap Remco probably created, would vanish in 2 hard MTFs (for example Solaison and Alpe d'Huez).
The only guy who could probably give some headaches to Pogacar is Remco + Vingegaard doing a Goten+Trunks and created a guy with Vingegaard's ability to climb and Remco's ability to do TTs. Unfortunately for the neutral fan, this is not gonna happen.

 

[proffate]

Remco should target RAAM next year (the 4th grand tour)

 

[Berniece]

If Remco gets anywhere close to Pogi in the mountains then we can talk about ITT kilometers. He's not even his most dangerous Tour rival now, not even close to that.

Indeed, finish a GT within 2 minutes first