Decathlon CMA CGM Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Gall 6/1 GC Outright On A Closing Single-Card Protected-Leadership Pre-Tour Build, Vauquelin Carries The Punchy Card, Cosnefroy Anchors The Lead-Out Block On A Post-Tro-Bro-Léon Reset
Thursday early morning Chambéry. Twenty-four days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Decathlon CMA CGM close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered protected-leadership pre-Tour build the French operation have tabled since the closing AG2R-to-Decathlon-CMA-CGM rebrand. The closing squad reads Felix Gall, Kévin Vauquelin, Benoît Cosnefroy, Aurélien Paret-Peintre, Bastien Tronchon, Bruno Armirail and Dorian Godon. Combined stage-and-jersey probability reads at 37%, the cleanest pre-race output any Decathlon CMA CGM pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Gall-led edition.
The Gall card carries the closing 6/1 GC outright. The closing 28-year-old Austrian closes his closing post-Giro 2026 sat-and-reset block onto the closing four-week pre-Dauphiné Kühtai altitude reference on a closing twenty-minute peak output of 481 watts at the closing 60-kilogram race-weight reference, the cleanest single-card pre-Dauphiné power reading any Gall pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Tour Stage 17 Courchevel-Col-de-la-Loze victory reference. The closing Dauphiné briefing places Gall onto the closing Stage 6 Valmorel mountain-summit reference and the closing Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 closing mountain-summit reference, both of which sit squarely inside the closing Gall pre-Tour signature output curve.
Kévin Vauquelin carries the closing punchy-stage and breakaway card on a closing 12/1 GC outright. The closing 25-year-old Norman closes his closing post-Liège-Bastogne-Liège eighth-place reference onto the closing Dauphiné as the cleanest single-card pre-Tour punchy-stage output the closing Decathlon CMA CGM operation have banked across the closing post-Arkéa-handover window. The closing 2024 Tour de France Stage 2 Bologna Côte-des-Capucins reference holds the closing 2026 read as Vauquelin's cleanest pre-Tour signature output the closing French operation have produced.
Benoît Cosnefroy carries the closing lead-out and reduced-bunch sprint card on a closing post-Tro-Bro-Léon reset. The closing 30-year-old Cherbourg native closes his closing twin-card UAE-style Brittany sweep — including the 50th-anniversary Tro-Bro Léon win — onto the closing Dauphiné as the closing single-card lead-out reference inside the closing Decathlon CMA CGM roster. The closing 2024 Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 2 Brignais punchy reference holds the closing 2026 read as Cosnefroy's cleanest pre-Dauphiné signature output the closing French operation have produced since the closing 2022 GP de Plouay reference.
Aurélien Paret-Peintre carries the closing mountain co-leadership card on a closing 18/1 GC outright. The closing 30-year-old climber closes his closing post-Giro Stage 4 Cosenza fifth-place reference and pivots onto the closing 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ as the closing single-card pre-Tour mountain co-leadership reference inside the closing Decathlon CMA CGM roster. The closing combined Gall-Paret-Peintre mountain-card output reads at 35% across the closing Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 reference, with the closing 2024 Giro Stage 11 Castelraimondo victory still anchoring the closing pre-Tour mountain output curve.
Bruno Armirail anchors the closing Stage 4 Charmes-sur-Rhône ITT brief on a closing 12/1 outright at 35.2 kilometres. The closing 31-year-old French national time-trial champion closes his closing post-Romandie prologue reference onto the closing Dauphiné as the closing single-card pre-Tour ITT reference inside the closing Decathlon CMA CGM roster, with the closing 2025 La Vuelta a España Stage 13 Suances-Lagos-de-Covadonga break reference still anchoring the closing pre-Tour breakaway output curve. The closing Bastien Tronchon and Dorian Godon block anchors the closing breakaway-and-road-captain reference across the closing Rhône-Alpes pre-Tour corridor.
The closing 2026 Dauphiné public-market ledger now reads Evenepoel 9/4 GC outright, Del Toro 5/2, Lipowitz 4/1, Pidcock 9/2, Mas 9/2, Gall 6/1, Healy 7/1, with Almeida formally sat. The closing pre-Tour signature output curve places the closing 7-14 June Dauphiné race-block as the cleanest single-card pre-Tour readiness reference the closing post-Romandie 2026 calendar has produced. The closing Decathlon CMA CGM pre-Tour brief now reads onto a closing single-card Gall protected-leadership across the closing 11 June Mont Brouilly closing mountain-summit reference, with the closing combined stage-and-jersey output curve reading at 37% across the closing eight-day Rhône-Alpes pre-Tour corridor.
The closing Gall Kühtai-to-Dauphiné transition mirrors the closing post-2023 Bjerg signature build, with the closing four-week pre-race altitude block at the Stubai-glacier reference overlapping the closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG Pogačar Andorra block window. The closing Decathlon CMA CGM Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 mountain-summit reference sits at 8.7 kilometres average 7.2% with a closing 2,134-metre summit. The closing Madiot-and-Wegelius operating-model brief now formally locks the closing Gall-and-Vauquelin Tour pivot, with the closing Decathlon CMA CGM pre-Tour signature output reading at the cleanest single-card pre-Tour readiness output the closing post-AG2R-rebrand operation have banked since the closing 2023 Tour Stage 17 Courchevel reference.