TOUR·KINETIC

UAE Emirates-XRG · 2026 Tour de France
TT engine / mountain domestique
Brandon McNulty

The quiet man from Phoenix returns to the Tour for the first time since 2022, fresh from sixth overall at the Tour de Suisse in service of Pogačar.

Brandon McNulty paper-collage portrait in the 2026 UAE Emirates-XRG kit

The quiet man from Phoenix returns to the Tour for the first time since 2022, fresh from sixth overall at the Tour de Suisse in service of Pogačar. One of the best time triallists in the world, McNulty will be a cornerstone of the opening team time trial in Barcelona before turning pacemaker in the mountains. His 2025 wins at the Tour de Pologne and in Montréal showed he is far more than a metronome.

Palmarès

  • UCI junior world time trial champion (2016)
  • Giro d'Italia stage winner (Bergamo, 2023)
  • Tour de Pologne GC winner (2025)
  • GP Cycliste de Montréal winner (2025)
  • US national time trial champion (2023)
Cut-out factIn 2016 he became only the fourth American junior world time trial champion, after Greg LeMond, Jeff Evanshine and Taylor Phinney.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Tadej Pogačar, Isaac Del Toro, Tim Wellens, Adam Yates, Florian Vermeersch, Nils Politt, Felix Großschartner — see the full UAE Emirates-XRG team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2). A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.