TOUR·KINETIC

Deliver world champion Tadej Pogačar a record-equalling fifth yellow jersey — and a third in a row — starting with the Barcelona team time trial.

Win the green jersey and sprint stages with Olav Kooij while shepherding 19-year-old GC debutant Paul Seixas — the youngest Tour starter since 1937 — through three weeks.

Put Juan Ayuso on the podium in Paris while Mads Pedersen hunts stage wins and the green jersey.

Attack relentlessly for breakaway stage wins, back Ben Healy for another GC top-10 and days in yellow, and send Richard Carapaz hunting mountain stages and the polka-dot jersey.

Hunt stage wins on all terrains — Kanter in the sprints, Tejada chasing GC and mountain results — extending a 16-win 2026 season.

Back Antonio Tiberi's top-10 GC bid on his Tour debut while hunting stage wins with Mohorič and Bauhaus and the polka-dot jersey with Lenny Martinez.

Race aggressively and "shape, not follow" the Tour: win the Barcelona opening team time trial with its TT armada, hunt stages, and keep a three-pronged GC presence via Arensman, Bernal and Vauquelin after new signing Oscar Onley's late health withdrawal.

Top-10 GC with Tour debutant Cian Uijtdebroeks and a first Tour stage win since 2019 via the breakaways.

Sprint stage wins and a green-jersey push with Tim Merlier, polka-dot hunting with Valentin Paret-Peintre, and a pressure-free GC ride from Ilan Van Wilder.

No GC project — deliver Jasper Philipsen to sprint wins and the green jersey, free Mathieu van der Poel on punchy finales, and chase yellow in Barcelona's opening team time trial.

Win the Tour with a dual-leadership GC assault: Remco Evenepoel for yellow, Florian Lipowitz as the second card, backed by Giro podium finisher Jai Hindley.

Stage wins on every terrain — Matthews, Ackermann and Schmid hunting, with Ben O'Connor chasing a GC top five for a team that survived near-collapse last October.

Top-5 overall with Tobias Halland Johannessen in the team's first WorldTour season, plus breakaway stage wins — and a farewell victory for the retiring Magnus Cort.

Sprint stage wins with Biniam Girmay plus breakaway strikes, launched from an emotional home Grand Départ in Barcelona, seat of new title sponsor NSN.

Stage wins only — no GC ambitions: De Lie for the sprints, Van Eetvelt for the mountains, breakaway hunters everywhere else.

Deliver Jonas Vingegaard a third yellow jersey and the first Giro-Tour double since 1998 — starting with a statement win in Barcelona's opening team time trial.

Stage wins as a wildcard ProTeam — Fretin in the bunch sprints, Aranburu on hilly finishes, and a farewell-Tour breakaway win for the retiring Ion Izagirre.

Break the stage-win drought running since Thibaut Pinot on the Tourmalet in 2019 — new French champion Romain Grégoire hunts stages while Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet chases a GC top 10.

Stage wins only — no GC ambitions — as the Swiss squad chases its still-elusive first Grand Tour stage victory at its second Tour.

Stage wins from breakaways with Jordan Jegat as the mountain card — the 27th and final Tour of the TotalEnergies era before the sponsor departs at season's end.

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

A stage win on the modern team's Tour debut — Gaviria in the sprints, breakaways everywhere else — bringing Caja Rural green back to the Tour after 38 years and riding for injured teammate Jaume Guardeño (#ForçaJaume).

Historic first Tour de France for the wildcard ProTeam: back Tom Pidcock's GC podium tilt while hunting breakaway stage wins.