Tour de France - De Lie, Alaphilippe and Aranburu amongst the latest confirmed for 2026 edition

Tudor Pro Cycling Team, Lotto - Intermarché and Cofidis have revealed their lineups for the 2026 Tour de France. These will all be teams exclusively focusing on chasing stage wins, and they all bring some of their very best riders in order to try and achieve that.

Tudor, out of these, is perhaps the team with the highest ambitions. The Swiss project comes in with strong climbers but no GC aspirations for the likes of Michael Storer and Yannis Voisard who will be looking to surprise and make the team's race. Julian Alaphilippe, after a very difficult spring, returns to racing at the Tour and will be trying to add another victory towards his six-win tally at the Grand Boucle. Marc Hirschi, another former stage winner, is aiming for the same types of stages.

Matteo Trentin and Marco Haller will be good options to chase breakaways on rolling days, but will also serve as leadout men. This is because the team comes into the Tour with Arvid de Kleijn, who began his season only in May. Rick Pluimers, another classic specialist, will be the other man in the Dutchman's leadout.

Lotto-Intermarché, as was the case at the Giro d'Italia, comes in with the co-leadership of its two leaders Arnaud de Lie and Lennert van Eetvelt. both Belgian riders were developed in the team and should be leaving this winter - thus having one final opportunity to perform greatly in a Grand Tour together.

Van Eetvelt will be the only rider aiming for the more mountainous stages, although in the hilly days virtually everyone in the team can hope to surprise. Eschborn-Frankfurt winner Georg Zimmermann, GP Gippingen winner Liam Slock and classics specialist Jenno Berckmoes are good options for the explosive days.

The lineup is completed by Dutch time trial champion Huub Artz, breakaway specialist Baptiste Veistroffer and Lars Craps.

Cofidis on the other hand, now at ProTeam level, aim for the Tour having three cards to aim for stage wins. On one side is Milan Fretin, as the Belgian sprinter has shown on several occasions to have the legs to battle against the best in the world. Hugo Page, Jenthe Biermans and Piet Allegaert will serve as a strong leadout.

Benjamin Thomas and Alex Kirsch, as rouleurs, will aim for the flat and relatively hilly days, whilst the team's two Basque riders aim for harder days. Alex Aranburu, recently a stage winner at the Baloise Belgium Tour, is a strong sprinter and descender aside from puncheur.

Ion Izagirre in the meantime has ridden to fourth place at Itzulia Basque Country and was recently also on the podium of La Route d'Occitanie.