For the first time since 2019, a team time trial is back on the menu at the Tour de France, but now there’s a twist: times will be recorded individually, not as a team.
Anyone who has watched – or indeed competed in – any of the last four editions of Paris-Nice will already be familiar with this every-man-for-himself timing rule. ASO has been trialling it at the race since 2023, and did so again on stage three of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes last month, a key dress rehearsal before the Tour’s opening stage in Barcelona on Saturday.
