EF Education-EasyPost Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Healy 7/1 GC Outright On A Closing Single-Card Post-Ardennes Protected-Leadership Pre-Tour Build, Powless Carries The Breakaway Card, Carthy Anchors The Mountain Co-Leadership Brief
Thursday early morning Boulder. Twenty-four days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, EF Education-EasyPost close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered protected-leadership pre-Tour build the Slipstream-licensed American operation have tabled across the closing post-Carapaz reset window. The closing squad reads Ben Healy, Neilson Powless, Hugh Carthy, Marijn van den Berg, Stefan Bissegger, Andrey Amador and Harry Sweeny. Combined stage-and-jersey probability reads at 33%, the cleanest pre-race output any EF Education-EasyPost pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Carapaz-led edition.
The Healy card carries the closing 7/1 GC outright. The closing 25-year-old Irishman closes his closing post-Amstel-Gold-Race fourth-place reference onto the closing four-week pre-Dauphiné Sierra Nevada altitude block on a closing twenty-minute peak output of 472 watts at the closing 64-kilogram race-weight reference, the cleanest single-card pre-Dauphiné power reading any Healy pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2024 Giro Stage 8 Prati di Tivo solo reference. The closing Dauphiné briefing places Healy onto the closing Stage 5 Mâcon-to-Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule punchy-corridor transition and the closing Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 closing mountain-summit reference, both of which sit squarely inside the closing Healy pre-Tour signature output curve.
Neilson Powless carries the closing breakaway-and-puncheur card on a closing 16/1 GC outright. The closing 29-year-old Sacramento native closes his closing post-Liège-Bastogne-Liège twin-card Ardennes block onto the closing Dauphiné as the cleanest single-card pre-Tour breakaway reference inside the closing EF Education-EasyPost roster. The closing 2024 Tour de France Stage 4 Valloire mountain-stage break reference holds the closing 2026 read as Powless's cleanest pre-Tour signature output the closing Slipstream operation have banked since the closing 2023 Donostia-San Sebastián Klasikoa victory window.
Hugh Carthy carries the closing twin-card mountain block alongside Healy. The closing 31-year-old Preston native closes his closing post-Giro 2026 reset on a closing 2026 Giro fourteenth-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 EF Education-EasyPost roster. The closing combined Healy-Carthy mountain-card output reads at 28% across the closing Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 reference, with the closing Carthy 2020 Vuelta third-place podium reference still anchoring the closing pre-Tour mountain output curve.
The closing classics-and-lead-out block reads Marijn van den Berg, Stefan Bissegger and Andrey Amador. The closing 2026 post-Tour-of-Norway Van den Berg power curve reads 1.8% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour reference, with the closing 26-year-old Dutch sprinter carrying the closing punchy-stage and reduced-bunch sprint card across the closing Stage 1 Voiron-to-Voreppe rolling opener. The closing Stage 4 Charmes-sur-Rhône ITT outright places Bissegger onto a closing 14/1 outright at 35.2 kilometres, with the closing 2026 post-Romandie prologue 2.3% above the closing 2024 pre-Olympic reference.
Harry Sweeny anchors the closing road-captain reference. The closing 28-year-old Australian closes his closing twelfth professional season on the closing Dauphiné road-captain card, with the closing 2024 Stade Toulousain charity ride and the closing 2025 Itzulia Stage 5 second-place reference the cleanest single-card pre-Tour domestique output the closing Sweeny pre-Tour signature has produced. Andrey Amador anchors the closing climbing-domestique reference at 38 years, the cleanest pre-Tour mountain-domestique output curve the closing post-Movistar-handover EF pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2022 Carapaz reference.
The closing 2026 Dauphiné public-market ledger now reads Evenepoel 9/4 GC outright, Del Toro 5/2, Lipowitz 4/1, Pidcock 9/2, Healy 7/1, Mas 9/2, 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 EF Education-EasyPost pre-Tour brief now reads onto a closing single-card Healy protected-leadership across the closing 11 June Mont Brouilly closing mountain-summit reference, with the closing combined stage-and-jersey output curve reading at 33% across the closing eight-day Rhône-Alpes pre-Tour corridor.
The closing Healy Ardennes-into-Dauphiné transition mirrors the closing post-2023 Carapaz signature build, with the closing four-week pre-race altitude block at Andorra Pas-de-la-Casa overlapping the closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG Pogačar block window. The closing Healy Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 mountain-summit reference sits at 8.7 kilometres average 7.2% with a closing 2,134-metre summit. The closing Sergeant-Vaughters operating-model brief now formally locks the closing Healy-and-Powless Tour pivot, with the closing Vingegaard absence at the closing Giro now formally cleared and the closing Healy pre-Tour signature output reading at the cleanest single-card pre-Tour readiness output the closing Slipstream operation have banked since the closing 2023 Tour Stage 14 Morzine-les-Portes-du-Soleil reference.