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Decathlon CMA CGM Confirm Full 2026 Tour de Hongrie Seven-Rider Squad — Kooij 7/4 The Sprint Outright On A Closing Twin-Card Kooij-Lapeira Hungarian-Corridor Brief That Reads At 61% Combined Stage-And-Jersey Probability

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 9 MAY 2026

Saturday late evening Essarts-en-Bocage — Four days from the Wednesday 13 May Veszprém Grand Départ, Decathlon CMA CGM have closed their full 2026 Tour de Hongrie seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered twin-card sprint-and-mountain Hungarian-corridor brief the Vendée WorldTeam have tabled across the closing post-Renshaw-Haussler operating-model reset. Squad reads Olav Kooij, Paul Lapeira, Dorian Godon, Cees Bol, Bruno Armirail, Oliver Naesen, and Clément Berthet. Combined stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 61%, the closing single-roster line the squad have ever banked at the four-days-out checkpoint of the Hungarian race.

Kooij opens his closing post-Visma reset window at the 2026 Tour de Hongrie as the squad's outright sprint card across the closing two flat opening days — the Wednesday 13 May Stage 1 Veszprém-Balatonfüred sea-front roll-out and the Thursday 14 May Stage 2 Siófok-Káposztásmegyer rolling 178-kilometre transition into the closing Káposztásmegyer finishing corridor. Kooij opens at 7/4 the Stage 1 outright on the closing public-market book, ahead of Tim Merlier 9/4 and Welsford 2/1, with the closing Bol-into-Naesen-into-Kooij lead-out reference reading as the cleanest single-rider Decathlon sprint-train build the closing post-Vendrame reset window has produced.

The closing Lapeira card pivots onto the Sunday 17 May Stage 5 Mátraszentimre queen-stage finale — a 167-kilometre Bükk-massif loop running the closing Cat-1 Kékestető ascent at kilometre 121 averaging 7.4 percent across 9.8 kilometres before a closing 18-kilometre descent-and-rolling-drag into the Mátraszentimre summit. Lapeira opens at 5/1 the closing GC outright behind McNulty 5/2 and Hirschi 7/2, with the closing twin-card Lapeira-Armirail reference reading as the cleanest single-rider Decathlon mountain-stage-race build the squad has tabled in the post-2024 Romandie reset.

Mark Renshaw — appointed to the Decathlon CMA CGM sport-directing staff in October 2025 on the closing Kooij sprint-project brief and now in his first formal sprint-train operating role at a 2.Pro Eastern European stage race — opens his closing twelve-day Hungarian-window operating ledger as the team's lead lead-out architect on the closing Bol-Naesen-Kooij reference. Heinrich Haussler, the second of the closing autumn 2025 sport-direction signings, opens his closing Hungarian-window operating reference on the closing classics-and-rouleur card alongside Naesen and Berthet across the closing Stage 3 Tiszafüred-Hortobágy ITT corridor.

Godon carries the closing one-day-classification reference on the closing Saturday 16 May Stage 4 Eger-Eger circuit — an 11.4-kilometre Bükkalja-corridor loop run twelve times across the closing 137-kilometre punchy-finishing window with a closing Cat-3 Váralja ramp positioned 4.8 kilometres from the line. Godon opens at 11/4 the Stage 4 outright on the closing post-Itzulia masterclass punchy-classics build, with the closing Berthet-into-Godon reference reading at the cleanest twin-card explosive-finish line Decathlon CMA CGM have produced in the closing 2026 Hungarian-build window.

The closing combined-probability ledger across the five-day Hungarian race reads at 61% — 38 percent on the closing Kooij sprint outright across the two flat opening days, 17 percent on the closing Lapeira Mátraszentimre GC outright, and 6 percent on the closing Godon Stage 4 punchy-finish outright. The closing pre-Tour de France build window into the closing 4 July Lille Grande Départ now reads at 56 days, with the closing Tour de Hongrie operating reference banking as the cleanest single-most-considered five-day Hungarian-corridor frame the squad have tabled into a Tour build since the closing 2022 reset.

Sport-directing staff confirmed for the closing Hungarian window: Stephen Barrett opens as race-day lead, with Renshaw on the closing sprint-train operating reference and Haussler on the closing rouleur-and-classics car. Race radio formally opens at the closing 09:30 Veszprém roll-out on Wednesday 13 May, with the closing Stage 1 transfer-out from Lake Balaton scheduled for the closing 16:30 local on the same day.

Decathlon CMA CGM Confirm Full 2026 Tour de Hongrie Seven-Rider Squad — Kooij 7/4 The Sprint Outright On A Closing Twin-Card Kooij-Lapeira Hungarian-Corridor Brief That Reads At 61% Combined Stage-And-Jersey Probability

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