The double Olympic mountain bike champion has reinvented himself as a genuine Grand Tour contender since leaving Ineos for this Swiss ProTeam project, sealing a breakthrough third overall at the 2025 Vuelta a España. Reunited in 2026 with the Pinarello bikes of his Alpe d'Huez glory days, he arrives in Barcelona as the box-office star the whole wildcard project was built around. Fresh off a Superga solo at Milano-Torino and a half-wheel near-miss at Milan-Sanremo, he leads the team's first-ever Tour.
Palmarès
- Olympic XC mountain bike champion (2021, 2024)
- Cyclo-cross world champion (2022)
- Tour de France stage winner on Alpe d'Huez (2022)
- Strade Bianche winner (2023); Amstel Gold Race winner (2024)
- 3rd overall, Vuelta a España (2025)
- Milano-Torino winner and Milan-Sanremo runner-up (2026)
Cut-out factWhen he won atop Alpe d'Huez in 2022 aged 22 — the youngest winner on the mythical climb — he first dropped the field descending the Galibier at over 100 km/h.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Xabier Mikel Azparren, Fred Wright, Quinten Hermans, Xandro Meurisse, Chris Harper, Damien Howson, Brent Van Moer — see the full Pinarello–Q36.5 team page.
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