France's brightest GC hope joined the superteam after his old squad, Arkéa-B&B Hotels, folded — and after finishing seventh at the 2025 Tour with barely any support. A virus wrecked his June and cost him the French championships, but he recovered in time to make the eight and eye both the white jersey and the top five. 'We have a lot of cards to be offensive,' he says of his new armada.
Palmarès
- Tour de France stage winner (2024, Bologna)
- 7th Tour de France GC (2025)
- 2nd Amstel Gold Race (2025)
- Étoile de Bessèges GC (2025)
- 4th Paris-Nice (2026)
Cut-out factThe Norman from Bayeux won his first Tour stage in 2024 on Bologna's San Luca climb on just his second day ever racing the Tour.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Egan Bernal, Thymen Arensman, Tobias Foss, Filippo Ganna, Dorian Godon, Michał Kwiatkowski, Joshua Tarling — see the full Netcompany INEOS team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: MFonzatti, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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