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INEOS Grenadiers Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Pidcock 9/2 GC Outright On A Closing Twin-Card Co-Leadership Pre-Tour Build, Rodríguez Carries The Mountain Card, Tarling Pivoted Onto The Closing Tour de Suisse Brief

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 13 MAY 2026

Wednesday late evening Knutsford. Twenty-five days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, INEOS Grenadiers close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on a closing twin-card co-leadership pre-Tour build window. The closing squad reads Tom Pidcock, Carlos Rodríguez, Magnus Sheffield, Thymen Arensman, Filippo Ganna, Connor Swift and Michał Kwiatkowski. The closing post-Giro Joshua Tarling formally sits the Dauphiné for the first time since his 2024 debut, pivoting onto the closing 14-21 June Tour de Suisse brief and the closing 27 June Mende-Mende national-championship ITT defence. Combined stage-and-jersey probability reads at 34%, the cleanest pre-race output any Netcompany-Ineos pre-Tour build has produced since the 2022 Yates-and-Carapaz-led edition.

The Pidcock card carries the closing 9/2 GC outright. The Yorkshireman closes his closing twelve-week post-Catalunya-tibia rehabilitation block on a closing twenty-minute peak output of 478 watts at the closing 65-kilogram race-weight reference, the cleanest single-card pre-Dauphiné power reading any Pidcock pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2024 Tour de Romandie reference. The closing Dauphiné briefing places Pidcock onto the closing Stage 4 Charmes-sur-Rhône-to-Combe Laval mountain-summit punch reference and the closing Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 closing mountain-summit reference, both of which sit squarely inside the closing Pidcock pre-Tour signature output curve.

Carlos Rodríguez carries the closing mountain co-leadership card on a closing 8/1 GC outright. The closing twenty-four-year-old Granadino closes his closing post-Vuelta-Andalucía 2026 ten-week altitude block on a closing Sierra Nevada Pradollano reference and pivots onto the closing 2026 Dauphiné as the closing single-card protected-leadership pre-Tour mountain reference inside the closing Netcompany-Ineos roster. The closing 2025 Dauphiné fifth-place reference holds the closing 2026 read as Rodríguez's cleanest Tour pre-build window since the closing 2023 Tour fifth.

The closing lead-out block reads Magnus Sheffield, Connor Swift and Michał Kwiatkowski. The closing 2026 post-Amstel-Gold Sheffield power curve reads 2.1% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour reference, with the closing 28-year-old American carrying the closing punchy-stage card across the closing Stage 2 Combloux and the closing Stage 5 Mâcon-to-Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule transition. Kwiatkowski closes his closing nineteenth professional season on the closing Dauphiné road-captain reference, with the closing 2025 Bernard Hinault Memorial post-stage podium the cleanest single-card output the closing Polish veteran has produced since the closing 2022 reference.

Thymen Arensman carries the closing twin-card mountain block alongside Rodríguez. The closing post-Giro 2026 Arensman reset, in which the closing 26-year-old Netcompany-Ineos climber sits the closing Italian Grand Tour on the closing Tarling-and-Bernal twin-card co-leadership ledger, places Arensman onto the closing 8 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ as the cleanest pre-race single-card pre-Tour mountain output any Arensman pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2024 Vuelta third-place reference. The closing combined Arensman-Rodríguez mountain-card output reads at 38% across the closing Stage 7 Valmeinier 1800 reference.

Filippo Ganna carries the closing Stage 4 Charmes-sur-Rhône ITT outright at 4/9 across the closing 35.2-kilometre Rhône-corridor reference. The closing 2026 post-Sanremo Ganna power curve reads 1.4% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour reference, with the closing 28-year-old Piedmontese carrying the closing 11.3-watt-per-kilogram twenty-minute peak across the closing 86-kilogram race-weight reference. The closing Ganna pre-Tour signature output curve holds the closing 2025 Tour de France Stage 5 Caen ITT victory reference as the cleanest single-card pre-Tour ITT output the closing Italian has produced since the closing 2024 Olympic Games Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines reference.

The closing Tarling pivot opens the closing Tour de Suisse window. The closing 22-year-old Welshman closes his closing four-day maglia-rosa block at the 2026 Giro on Tuesday's closing Cosenza Cozzo Tunno concession to Vingegaard and pivots onto the closing 14-21 June Tour de Suisse brief. The closing Tour de Suisse Stage 5 Schwarzhorn ITT outright at 4/9 holds the closing Tarling pre-Tour signature output curve as the cleanest single-card pre-Tour ITT reading any 22-year-old pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Vingegaard pre-Tour reference. The closing 27 June Mende-Mende national-championship ITT defence places Tarling onto the closing Friday 3 July Lille Grand Départ as the closing single-card ITT-and-prologue reference inside the closing Netcompany-Ineos pre-Tour build.

The closing 2026 Dauphiné public-market ledger now reads Evenepoel 9/4 GC outright, Del Toro 5/2, Lipowitz 4/1, Pidcock 9/2, Rodríguez 8/1, with Almeida formally sat. The closing pre-Tour signature output curve places the closing 4-11 June Dauphiné race-block as the cleanest single-card pre-Tour readiness reference the closing post-Romandie 2026 calendar has produced. The closing Netcompany-Ineos pre-Tour brief now reads onto a closing twin-card Pidcock-and-Rodríguez co-leadership across the closing 11 June Mont Brouilly closing mountain-summit reference, with the closing combined stage-and-jersey output curve reading at 34% across the closing eight-day Rhône-Alpes pre-Tour corridor.

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