EXPO YELLO 2026 Tour de France
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Team Picnic PostNL

Stage wins, not GC: bunch sprints with Pavel Bittner and hilly-day breakaways with Barguil and Van den Broek โ€” plus badly needed UCI points for the WorldTour's lowest-ranked team.

Country
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Netherlands
Bike
Lapierre Xelius DRS (with Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, Michelin tyres)
Manager
Iwan Spekenbrink (CEO/general manager; Matt Winston is Tour coach)
Founded
2005
Division
WorldTour

The 2026 kit

Deep navy-blue race jersey made by Nalini โ€” the design introduced with the 2025 Picnic PostNL rebrand and carried into 2026 essentially unchanged. The defining motif is a pair of narrow, vivid PostNL-orange vertical stripes running parallel straight down the exact centre of the torso, from just below the collar to the hem, on both the front and the back of the jersey (the team's signature 'Keep Challenging' stripes, a lineage motif since 2014 โ€” deliberately visible from TV helicopter shots). The two title-sponsor logos share the middle of the jersey equally, stacked over the stripe zone: the white 'Picnic' wordmark (rounded lowercase supermarket logotype) across the upper chest, with the white 'postnl' wordmark plus PostNL's little orange-and-white oval ball emblem directly beneath it on the mid-chest. Long-time backer dsm-firmenich retains a small white wordmark along the shoulder line, and a couple of small new-for-2026 partner marks (Michelin tyres, Raisin) join the minor white logos low on the front; a small Shimano equipment mark also features. Low-profile navy collar, aero ribbed navy sleeves in subtly striped aero fabric with plain navy cuffs, navy mesh side panels โ€” everything outside the two orange centre stripes and the white lettering stays dark navy. Bib shorts are near-black navy with white 'Picnic PostNL' branding on the outer thighs and thin orange accent detailing echoing the jersey stripes. Overall read: an almost-black navy silhouette split by a bold twin orange racing stripe down the centre of chest and back.

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The Car

leadership and staff shaping the Picnic PostNL Tour
Executive Iwan Spekenbrink editorial staff portrait
Iwan Spekenbrink
CEO / general manager
Picnic PostNL
Coaching Matt Winston editorial staff portrait
Matt Winston
Coach
Picnic PostNL

The Eight

the Picnic PostNL Tour squad
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท RIDER
WB
Warren Barguil
Climber โ€” free-role stage hunter for the mountain and hilly days
34 yrsClimber
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ RIDER โ˜… U26
FB
Frits Biesterbos
Second sprinter / sprint option (Tour de France debutant)
24 yrsSprint
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ RIDER โ˜… U26
PB
Pavel Bittner
Lead sprinter โ€” the team's number-one card for the bunch finishes
23 yrsSprint
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช RIDER
JD
John Degenkolb
Road captain and sprint lead-out โ€” the squad's elder statesman
37 yrsClassics
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช RIDER โ˜… U26
RD
Robbe Dhondt
Domestique and sprint-train helper (Tour de France debutant)
22 yrsDomestique
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช RIDER
NM
Niklas Mรคrkl
Lead-out man / rouleur in the sprint train
27 yrsDomestique
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ RIDER
Jv
Julius van den Berg
Rouleur โ€” sprint-train engine and breakaway policeman
29 yrsBreakaway
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ RIDER
Fv
Frank van den Broek
Puncheur โ€” breakaway hunter for the hilly and medium-mountain stages
25 yrsPuncheur