At 36, the 2014 world champion is the compass of this team — the road captain whose decade of winning everything from Milan-San Remo to Tour mountain stages gives the young leaders their bearings. Kwiatkowski fought back from injury this season purely to make this race, then won the Polish time trial title weeks before the start. 'Racing the Tour de France was my motivation to come back,' he says. 'At times it felt almost impossible.'
Palmarès
- World road race champion (2014)
- Milan-San Remo winner (2017)
- Strade Bianche winner (2014, 2017)
- Amstel Gold Race winner (2015, 2022)
- Tour de France stage wins (2020, 2023)
- Polish ITT champion (2026)
Cut-out factHe is the longest-serving rider in the team's Sky-to-Netcompany lineage, having joined back in 2016 — and famously gave away wins pacing Chris Froome up mountains.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Egan Bernal, Thymen Arensman, Tobias Foss, Filippo Ganna, Dorian Godon, Joshua Tarling, Kévin Vauquelin — see the full Netcompany INEOS team page.
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