Nine years on from his fairy-tale 2017 Tour — two mountain-stage wins and the polka-dot jersey — 'Wawa' remains France's great romantic attacker. A crash in February wrecked the first half of his 2026 season, but the 34-year-old Breton starts his 12th Tour with a free role to raid the medium mountains for a team hunting stages, not GC.
Palmarès
- Tour de France mountains classification winner (2017)
- 2x Tour de France stage winner — Foix and Col d'Izoard (2017)
- 2x Vuelta a España stage winner (2013)
- French national road race champion (2019)
- GP Miguel Induráin winner (2022)
- Tour de France super-combativity award (2017)
Cut-out factBoth of his 2017 Tour stage wins came while wearing the polka-dot jersey — including on Bastille Day in Foix, France's first 14 July Tour stage win since 2005.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Frits Biesterbos, Pavel Bittner, John Degenkolb, Robbe Dhondt, Niklas Märkl, Julius van den Berg, Frank van den Broek — see the full Picnic PostNL team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Clémence LN, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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