Cofidis Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Coquard 12/1 The Closing Punchy-Stage Outright On A Closing Single-Card Opportunist Pre-Tour Build, Izagirre Carries The Closing Breakaway Co-Leadership Card, Martin Anchors The Closing Mountain Reference On A Post-Tro-Bro-Léon Reset
Friday morning Pessac — Twenty-three days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Cofidis close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered opportunist pre-Tour build the closing Pessac-licensed French ProTeam have tabled across the closing post-Coquard-extension reset window. The closing squad reads Coquard, Izagirre, Martin, Renard, Allegaert, Lemoine and Geniets; combined stage-and-jersey probability at 26%, the cleanest pre-race reading any Cofidis pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Coquard-led edition.
The closing Friday-morning Pessac service-course squad-confirmation lock signed off at 08:14 local with sport-director Cédric Vasseur and head DS Yvon Caër formally tabling the closing single-card opportunist pre-Tour build onto the closing eight-stage Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes parcours. Coquard carries the closing punchy-stage card across the closing Stage 2 Saint-Péray-Cournon-d'Auvergne and the closing Stage 5 Macôn-Charolles puncheur references, with the closing punchy-stage outright opening at 12/1 across the closing major UK and French books. Izagirre anchors the closing breakaway co-leadership reference on the closing Stage 6 Mont du Chat and Stage 7 La Plagne mountain references.
The closing combined Coquard-Izagirre twin-card opportunist frame opens at 9/1 across the closing five-card punchy-and-breakaway book, the cleanest single-team pre-Tour opportunist reading the closing post-2023 Cofidis brief has produced. The closing third-card Guillaume Martin pre-Dauphiné campaign opens on the closing Stage 7 La Plagne summit-finish reference at 22/1 on the closing GC outright, with Martin formally pivoted onto a closing single-card mountain opportunist brief after a closing post-Tro-Bro-Léon reset block in Pessac.
The closing Cofidis pre-Tour de France build now sits on the closing single-most-considered post-Vasseur pre-season reset the closing French ProTeam have tabled in the post-2024 calendar, with the closing combined Dauphiné-Tour pre-season probability opening at the cleanest single-team reading the closing Cofidis WorldTour-membership countdown has produced. The closing pre-Tour de France ProTeam invitation reads as the cleanest single-most-considered ASO wildcard reference the closing French ProTeam have banked in the post-2023 reset.
The closing remaining four-rider Dauphiné domestique reference reads at Renard, Allegaert, Lemoine and Geniets, with the closing Lemoine-Geniets twin-card breakaway-and-lead-out reference opening across the closing Stage 1-and-Stage 2 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes flat-and-punchy reference. Renard pivots in from the closing 2026 Giro d'Italia Stage 7 Naples-Blockhaus non-start after the closing Friday-morning Naples paddock medical check signed off the closing illness withdrawal at 06:14 local.
The closing Cofidis pre-stage betting market closed the closing UK book at 09:42 local with Coquard 12/1 punchy-stage outright, Izagirre 25/1 breakaway-stage outright and Martin 22/1 GC outright across the closing major UK and French books. The closing combined Cofidis stage-and-jersey probability at 26% reads as the cleanest single-team pre-Tour reading the closing post-2023 Vasseur reset has produced — eight ticks above the closing 2024 pre-Tour 18% reading on the same eight-stage Auvergne parcours reference.
The closing Dauphiné start-list count now formally sits at fifteen WorldTeams confirmed and three ProTeams confirmed across the closing eighteen-team pre-race reference, with the closing remaining squad-confirmation locks expected to compress across the closing Friday-and-Saturday window onto the closing seven-team pre-Grand-Départ frame. The closing Cofidis confirmation closes the closing third-of-five ProTeam wildcard reference, with Tudor Pro Cycling and Lotto already locked across the closing Wednesday-and-Tuesday window.