Lotto Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — De Lie 4/1 The Closing Punchy-Stage Outright, Van Eetvelt Carries The Mountain Co-Leadership Card, Campenaerts Anchors The Closing Lead-Out Block On A Closing Post-Giro-d'Italia Build
Wednesday late evening Herentals. Twenty-five days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Lotto close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered twin-card opportunist-and-protected-leadership pre-Tour build the Herentals-registered Belgian operation have tabled across the closing post-Spring-Classics reset. The squad reads Arnaud De Lie, Lennert Van Eetvelt, Victor Campenaerts, Jasper De Buyst, Maxim Van Gils, Brent Van Moer and Florian Vermeersch. Combined stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 31%, the cleanest pre-race output any Lotto pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2023 Wellens-led edition.
The squad confirmation closes the closing Herentals Wednesday late-evening team-management lock at 22:34 local with sport director Kurt Van de Wouwer tabling the closing twin-card opportunist-and-protected-leadership brief on the closing five-day rolling-and-mountain Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes parcours window. De Lie 4/1 holds the closing Stage-2 Saint-Péray-Cournon-d'Auvergne punchy-finish outright, contracting from a closing 9/2 pre-confirmation reference and now sitting one-point clear of Alaphilippe at 5/1 on the closing combined post-Ardennes punchy-stage book.
Van Eetvelt carries the closing mountain co-leadership card on the cleanest pre-Tour Lotto reference the Belgian operation have produced since the closing 2023 Wellens-led edition, with the 25-year-old climber sitting at 9/1 the closing GC outright behind Del Toro 5/2, Jorgenson 5/2 and Evenepoel 9/4 on the closing combined Stage-6 Mont du Chat-and-Stage-7 La Plagne summit-finish reference. The Lotto operation have now formally confirmed the closing post-Giro d'Italia Van Eetvelt pivot from the closing Trento ProSeries calendar onto the closing single-card protected-leadership Tour de France build.
Campenaerts anchors the closing lead-out brief on a closing post-Giro d'Italia reset, with the Belgian time-trial specialist completing the closing 2026 corsa rosa Bulgarian Grande Partenza opening week on the cleanest pre-Dauphiné cardio-and-power reference the closing Lotto operation have banked across the closing post-2022 Wout-van-Aert-co-leadership window. Campenaerts also closes the closing Stage-4 Saint-Vallier-Saint-Marcellin 32.4-kilometre individual time trial at 11/2 the closing ITT outright behind Ganna 9/4, Bissegger 11/4, Affini 4/1 and Edoardo Affini at 4/1.
De Buyst takes the closing classics-lead-out card on the closing Stage-1 Voiron-Voreppe opening-day flat reference, with Van Gils carrying the closing breakaway-and-mountain co-leadership card on the closing post-Eschborn-Frankfurt reset. Van Moer and Vermeersch close the closing rotation brief on the closing combined Stage-3 Saint-Étienne-puncheur reference and the closing Stage-8 Annemasse-and-Thônes mountain-finish window, with the closing combined Lotto stage-and-jersey expected-value model line reading at 1.4 stage wins and 0.3 jerseys across the closing eight-stage Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes window.
The Herentals team-management lock also formally confirms the closing post-Dauphiné calendar pivot for De Lie onto the closing 4 July Lille Tour de France Grande Départ on the cleanest single-rider closing-week pre-Tour stage-win-and-points-jersey reference the closing Lotto operation have produced since the closing 2014 Greipel-led edition. De Lie 7/1 the closing Tour de France maillot vert outright behind Pedersen 5/2, Philipsen 3/1, Milan 4/1 and Girmay 5/1 across the closing five-card pre-Tour points-jersey book.
Closing twenty-six-day Pre-Tour build window now reads as: Wednesday 14 May Herentals service-course media-day window; closing 17 May Itzulia Basque Country team-recon block (Van Eetvelt, Van Gils); closing 30 May Brussels Cycling Classic for De Lie and De Buyst; closing 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Dauphiné Grand Départ for the De Lie-led seven-rider squad. Closing pre-Tour combined Lotto stage-win-and-jersey expected-value model line reads at 3.4 stage wins and 0.6 jerseys across the closing combined Dauphiné-and-Tour-de-France window.