The team's box-office breakaway artist, Vercher wept on live TV after being outsprinted by Victor Campenaerts within sight of a debut Tour stage win in 2024, and animated the 2025 race with two combativity awards. The Lyonnais, who came through the team's own Vendée U academy, starts his third Tour still hunting that elusive first Tour stage.
Palmarès
- Winner, Tour du Doubs (2025)
- 2nd, Tour de France stage 18, beaten by Campenaerts (2024)
- French amateur road race champion (2022)
- Combativity award, Tour de France stages 1 & 8 (2025)
- Winner overall, Trois Jours de Cherbourg (2022)
Cut-out factOn stage 1 of the 2025 Tour he and Benjamin Thomas produced one of the race's most viral moments — both crashing on the cobbles of Mont Cassel while sprinting flat-out for a single King of the Mountains point.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Jordan Jegat, Nicolas Breuillard, Joris Delbove, Alexandre Delettre, Thibault Guernalec, Mathis Le Berre, Anthony Turgis — see the full TotalEnergies team page.
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