{"id":620710,"date":"2026-06-04T11:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620710\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:57:20","slug":"tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes-2026-start-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/620710\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 2026 start list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Giro d\u2019Italia, we focus on a whole new batch of riders, many of whom are building towards the Tour de France. Some of them will do so via the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, the new name for what we knew as the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\">Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a>. IDL Pro Cycling brings you the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes 2026 start list.Originally, Remco Evenepoel was due to be one of the stars on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes.fr\/en\/news\/2025\/tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes-a-vast-game-board-for-the-new-criterium-du-dauphine\/18557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">start list<\/a>, but the Belgian of Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe is opting for a build-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/red-bull-want-evenepoel-in-monster-shape-for-the-tour-down-to-the-millimetre-after-68-days-without-racing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">without a stage race<\/a> on the road to the Tour de France.<a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/participants-criterium-du-dauphine-2025-rodriguez-and-evenepoel-know-teammates-during-bardets-last\">The other big Belgian star, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/wout-van-aert\">Wout van Aert<\/a>, is there. He will ride for Visma | Lease a Bike with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/matteo-jorgenson\">Matteo Jorgenson<\/a> \u2014 who had originally been due to ride the Tour of Switzerland \u2014 and Ben Tulett. In addition, the team time trial will be an important test for the team, and for all the other squads, ahead of the first day of the Tour.From France, all eyes will be on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/paul-seixas\">Paul Seixas<\/a>, who will also prepare for his first Tour de France on home soil. The Decathlon CMA CGM climber is also regarded as the top favourite for the stage race.Lidl-Trek will line up with Mattias Skjelmose and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/juan-ayuso\">Juan Ayuso<\/a>, while UAE Emirates-XRG will field <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/isaac-del-toro\">Isaac del Toro<\/a> and Jo\u00e3o Almeida. Netcompany INEOS will do the same with Oscar Onley, K\u00e9vin Vauquelin and Carlos Rodr\u00edguez. Those teams will be looking to put Seixas and Jorgenson under as much pressure as possible.Provisional start list Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes (Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9) 2026Why did the Criterium du Dauphine change its name?The Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 was rebranded to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes.fr\/en\/news\/2025\/tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes-a-vast-game-board-for-the-new-criterium-du-dauphine\/18557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes<\/a> to reflect the growing partnership with the Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes regional government and to emphasize the race&#8217;s expanded geographical reach across the 12 departments of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Race organizer ASO officially altered the historic name, which dates back to its origins as Le Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 in 1947, to be more aligned with the extensive logistical and financial support provided by the local host region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the Giro d\u2019Italia, we focus on a whole new batch of riders, many of whom are building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,209408,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-620710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}