Pogačar begins Tour de France campaign with team time trial in Barcelona
Yahoo Sports • 1 min read • Latest: Jul 4, 2026, 1:21 PM
Last updated Jul 4, 2026
Tadej Pogačar launches his quest for a fifth Tour de France title on July 4, 2026. The race opens in Barcelona with a 19.6-kilometer team time trial, featuring a course that passes the Sagrada Familia and includes a short climb. Pogačar, the overall favorite and previous champion, aims to join cycling legends with five titles. His main rival, Jonas Vingegaard, is also competing and will start right behind him. The competition runs over three weeks with key stages culminating at famous climbs and ends in Paris.
- •Pogačar is aiming for his fifth Tour de France title.
- •The opening stage is a team time trial in Barcelona.
- •Vingegaard, the 2022 and 2023 champion, is Pogačar's main challenger.
- •The race features significant climbs and stages crossing into the French Pyrenees.
- •The Tour concludes on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
- 1:21 PMYahoo Sports — Pogačar starts quest for 5th Tour de France title with team time trial in Barcelona
"Tadej Pogačar will start his quest for a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title when the race kicks off in neighboring Spain on Saturday. The elite Grand Tour begins with a team time trial in Barcelona, an opening stage which will take riders past the city’s famous Sagrada Familia basilica and finish with a short climb up a hill overlooking the popular tourist destination. The Slovenian sensation is aiming to join the select crowd of Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault as the only riders to have won cycling's most prestigious race on five occasions.
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