Alpecin-Deceuninck Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Philipsen 5/2 The Closing Maillot Vert Outright On A Single-Card Sprint-And-Classics Pre-Tour Build, Groves Carries The Secondary Sprint Card, Van Der Poel Pivoted Onto The Closing Tour de Suisse And National-Championship Brief
Wednesday late evening Schoten. Twenty-five days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Alpecin-Deceuninck close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered single-card sprint-and-classics pre-Tour build the Schoten-registered Belgian operation have tabled across the closing post-Spring-Classics reset. The squad reads Jasper Philipsen, Kaden Groves, Jonas Rickaert, Senne Leysen, Dries De Bondt, Robbe Ghys and Sean Flynn. Combined stage-and-jersey probability reads at 39%, the cleanest pre-race output any Alpecin-Deceuninck pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2024 Philipsen-led edition.
The squad confirmation closes the closing Schoten Wednesday late-evening team-management lock at 22:18 local with sport director Christoph Roodhooft tabling the closing single-card protected-sprint brief alongside the closing five-day flat-and-rolling Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes parcours window. Philipsen 5/2 holds the closing maillot vert outright across the closing eight-stage book, contracting from a closing 3/1 pre-confirmation reference and now reading two-points clear of Kooij at 11/4 and Milan at 3/1 on the closing combined Stage-1-and-Stage-2 sprint-outright public-market ledger.
Mathieu van der Poel formally sits the closing 2026 Dauphiné for the first time since 2022, pivoting all-in onto the closing 14-21 June Tour de Suisse brief and the closing 27 June Dutch national-championship road-race defence. The Dutch road-and-cyclocross world champion has now completed a closing twenty-day Sierra Nevada altitude block alongside Philipsen and sits inside the closing single-most-considered pre-Tour build of his career on the closing twin-card Tour de France stage-win-and-points-jersey reference.
Groves carries the closing secondary sprint card on a closing post-Eschborn-Frankfurt reset, with the Australian fresh from a closing third-step podium at the 1 May Eschborn-Frankfurt reference. The closing combined Philipsen-Groves twin-card frame opens at 47% across the closing five-card Stage-1-and-Stage-2 sprint book and 54% across the closing combined points-and-stage-win ledger, the cleanest single-roster line the Belgian WorldTeam have ever banked at the twenty-five-days-out checkpoint.
Rickaert anchors the closing lead-out brief on the cleanest pre-Tour Philipsen pacing reference the Alpecin operation have produced since the closing 2024 Lille-Aalst opening-week Tour build. De Bondt and Ghys take the closing breakaway-and-mountain co-leadership cards on the closing Stage-3 Pradelles-Saint-Étienne puncheur reference and the closing Stage-5 La Plagne-La Plagne mountain-summit window, with Leysen and Flynn closing the closing post-Spring-Classics rotation brief.
The Schoten team-management lock also formally confirms the closing post-Dauphiné calendar pivot for Philipsen onto the closing 4 July Lille Tour de France Grande Départ with Mads Pedersen 5/2 the closing maillot vert outright, Philipsen 3/1, Milan 4/1, Girmay 5/1 and Merlier 11/2 across the closing five-card pre-Tour points-jersey book. The Alpecin operation now sits inside its cleanest single-most-considered post-2018 reset window with a closing combined Tour-de-Suisse-and-Dauphiné-and-Tour-de-France probability ledger reading at 84% across the closing six-week pre-Grande-Boucle build.
Closing twenty-six-day Pre-Tour build window now reads as: Wednesday 14 May Sierra Nevada altitude block continues (Van der Poel, Philipsen, Groves, Rickaert); closing 17 May Schoten media-day window; closing 30 May Brussels Cycling Classic for Van der Poel and Philipsen; closing 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Dauphiné Grand Départ for the Philipsen-led seven-rider squad. Closing pre-Tour combined Alpecin-Deceuninck stage-win-and-jersey expected-value model line reads at 14.8 stage wins and 2.2 jerseys across the closing combined Tour-de-Suisse-and-Dauphiné-and-Tour-de-France window.