The giant young Welshman makes his Tour de France debut three weeks after lying in a hospital bed: he broke his collarbone at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in June, had surgery, and healed 'nice and strong straight away'. Already a Giro stage winner and European TT champion at 22, Tarling is the future of the discipline and a monstrous engine for the Barcelona team time trial. Nothing about his rise has been slow.
Palmarès
- European ITT champion (2023)
- Giro d'Italia stage winner (2025)
- British national ITT champion (2023, youngest ever elite winner at 19)
- World junior ITT champion (2021, 2022)
Cut-out factFrom collarbone surgery to the Tour de France start ramp in exactly three weeks — and he still made the eight.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Egan Bernal, Thymen Arensman, Tobias Foss, Filippo Ganna, Dorian Godon, Michał Kwiatkowski, Kévin Vauquelin — see the full Netcompany INEOS team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Nicola, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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