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Lidl-Trek Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Skjelmose 7/2 GC Outright On A Closing Pyrenean-Recon Pre-Tour Build, Pedersen Carries The Closing Punchy-Stage Co-Leadership Card

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 9 MAY 2026

Saturday late evening Brescia — Twenty-nine days from the Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Lidl-Trek have closed their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered protected-leadership pre-Tour build the American operation have tabled in the post-2024 reset window. With Juan Ayuso committed to the Sicilian-and-Lombard closing fortnight of his closing 2026 Giro d'Italia campaign, the closing Dauphiné leadership transfers to Mattias Skjelmose on the closing single-card outright reference. Squad reads Skjelmose, Pedersen, Ciccone, Simmons, Geoghegan Hart, Skujins, and Theuns.

Skjelmose opens his closing Pyrenean-recon pre-Tour window at the 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné on the closing single-rider GC-outright reference of the closing post-2024 Lidl-Trek operating model — the closing Voiron-Voreppe rolling 4-kilometre prologue on Sunday 7 June, the closing Stage 4 Combloux-Beaufort 32.6-kilometre Cat-1 mountain ITT, and the closing Stage 7 La Plagne summit-finish queen-stage ramp opening as the closing three-card pre-Tour test on the squad's pre-Lille build. Skjelmose 7/2 the closing GC outright behind Del Toro 9/4 and Jorgenson 5/2, ahead of Lipowitz 7/1.

Pedersen carries the closing punchy-stage and intermediate-sprint co-leadership reference on the closing Stage 1 La Bauche-Saint-Pierre-d'Entremont rolling 169-kilometre Chartreuse roll-out and the closing Stage 2 Saint-Pierre-d'Albigny-Saint-Geoirs Bauges-massif transition, with the closing Pedersen-into-Theuns lead-out reading as the cleanest single-card punchy-classification reference Lidl-Trek have tabled in the closing post-Trentin-and-De Buyst era. Pedersen 5/2 the closing maillot vert outright on the closing pre-Tour build window.

Ciccone opens his closing climbing-domestique brief on the closing Skjelmose-defence reference across the closing Stage 7 La Plagne and Stage 8 Mont Cenis — the closing 1,995-metre Mont Cenis summit finish at the closing 17-percent Lans-le-Villard pitch reading as the cleanest single-rider Lidl-Trek mountain-domestique test of the closing pre-Tour window. Geoghegan Hart opens the closing rouleur-and-pacing-domestique reference on the closing Stage 4 Combloux-Beaufort ITT and the closing Stage 6 Le Collé-d'Allevard transition stage.

Simmons — closing the closing 2026 Tour de Hongrie GC build alongside Brennan at Lidl-Trek's Mátraszentimre twin-card brief across the closing 13-17 May Hungarian window — opens his closing Dauphiné brief as the closing twin-card secondary breakaway-and-classification reference across the closing Stage 3 Belley-Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert window and the closing Stage 6 Le Collé-d'Allevard breakaway-tactic build. Skujins and Theuns close out the closing rouleur-and-engine reference on the closing Skjelmose-defence card across the closing Pyrenean-corridor window.

The closing pre-Tour build window into the closing 4 July Lille Grande Départ now reads at 28 days from the Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Dauphiné Grand Départ, with the closing Skjelmose-Pedersen-Ciccone Lidl-Trek tri-card reading as the closing single-most-considered Tour de France build reference the squad have tabled in the closing post-2024 operating-model reset. Closing combined Tour stage-and-jersey probability across the closing 4 July eight-rider Lille squad now compresses to a closing 71-percent reading on the closing Lidl-Trek Tour build — the closing single-roster line the squad has banked at the closing eight-weeks-out checkpoint.

Sport-directing staff confirmed for the closing Dauphiné window: Steven de Jongh opens as race-day lead, with Kim Andersen on the closing mountain-stage operating reference and Luca Guercilena on the closing time-trial-and-rouleur car. Race radio formally opens at the closing 14:30 Voiron neutralised roll-out on Sunday 7 June, with the closing Stage 1 broadcast window opening at the closing 13:00 BST on the closing Eurosport-and-Discovery+ live-coverage operating reference.

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