{"id":672478,"date":"2026-07-03T23:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:21:11","slug":"2026-tour-de-france-stage-1-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672478\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Tour de France Stage 1 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/category\/previews\/\" class=\"cmsmasters_cat_color cmsmasters_cat_332419540\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Previews<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-16.35.36.png\" title=\"2026 Tour de France Stage 1 Preview\" rel=\"ilightbox[cmsmasters_open_post_img_6a4832470939c] nofollow noopener\" class=\"cmsmasters_img_link\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"860\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-16.35.36-860x422.png\" class=\" wp-post-image\" alt=\"2026 Tour de France Stage 1 Preview\" title=\"Screenshot 2026-06-26 at 16.35.36\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-attachment-id=\"52482\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/2026\/06\/26\/2026-tour-de-france-preview\/screenshot-2026-06-26-at-16-35-36\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-16.35.36.png\" data-orig-size=\"1542,756\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot 2026-06-26 at 16.35.36\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-16.35.36-1024x502.png\"\/>cyclingmole<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Barcelona &gt; Barcelona 19.6km TTT<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right then, it\u2019s time for the start of the 2026 Tour de France. The race kicks off down in Barcelona, and the organisers have decided to go with a team time trial. Normally, the team time is taken when the 4th\u00a0rider crossed the line, now the 1st\u00a0rider home will set the team time. This format has been used in Paris-Nice over the last few years and it was also tried out in this year\u2019s Dauphin\u00e9, the organisers clearly liked what they saw. Due to the distance, gaps should be relatively small, I\u2019m expecting a close fight.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to get access<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more of this content when you subscribe today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Previewscyclingmole Barcelona &gt; Barcelona 19.6km TTT Right then, it\u2019s time for the start of the 2026 Tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672478","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=672478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}