Tadej Pogačar comes into the 2026 Tour de France as the defending champion and hot favourite to win the overall general classification against his arch rival Jonas Vingegaard, as well as Remco Evenepoel and perhaps young Frenchman Paul Seixas too.
The Slovenian, who is also reigning World Champion, comes into the race with a relatively unchanged bike from last year’s race, but as the team’s press officer Luke Maguire tells me, this is only because Pogačar drove the team hard towards improving its equipment a few seasons ago.
