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Cycling Weekly
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Pat Kinsella

Backies, bucket hats, banana avatars, rowing riders and wacky World Cup conspiracy theories… The first nine stages of the 2026 Tour de France, as seen through social media

A compilation of images taken from social media featuring riders at the Tour de France.

The first nine stages of the 2026 Tour de France are done and dusted, and the familiar figure of Tadej Pogačar is – of course – rolling around in yellow.

Less predictable have been some of the sights, scenes and memes emerging from the various social media accounts of the World-Tour teams as the people around the riders add some depth and perspective to the athletes we mostly see with their heads down, hurtling around the route of the race.

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