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Movistar Team Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Mas 9/2 GC Outright On A Closing Twin-Card Mas-Romeo Pyrenean-Recon Brief, Lazkano The Closing Punchy-Stage Card

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 10 MAY 2026 (LATE EVENING)

Sunday late evening Pamplona — Twenty-eight days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Movistar Team have closed their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered twin-card protected-leadership pre-Tour build the Telefónica-backed Spanish operation have tabled across the closing post-Quintana Eusebio-Unzué reset window. The closing seven-rider line reads Enric Mas, Javier Romeo, Oier Lazkano, Iván Romeo, Jorge Arcas, Imanol Erviti and Will Barta.

The closing single-card protected-leadership reference transfers to Mas on the cleanest pre-Tour Pyrenean-recon outright window the Mallorcan climber has banked across the closing post-2024 Volta a Catalunya podium reset. Closing GC outright opens at 9/2, contracting from a closing 11/2 pre-confirmation reference and now sitting fourth across the closing six-card book behind Del Toro at 6/4, Jorgenson at 5/2 and Skjelmose at 7/2. Romeo carries the closing twin-card secondary GC reference at 7/1, opening on the cleanest pre-Tour climbing-domestique-into-protected-card pivot the 22-year-old Salamanca rider has tabled across the closing post-Itzulia Basque Country fourth-step podium window.

Sport-director José Joaquín Rojas formally tables the closing eight-stage Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes parcours as the cleanest single-most-considered pre-Tour de France recon window the squad have committed to since the closing 2018 Quintana-Landa twin-card brief. The closing Stage 6 La Plagne summit finish and the closing Stage 7 Col du Pré-La Plagne queen stage form the closing twin-mountain reference for Mas's closing pre-Tour climbing-form pivot, with the Stage 4 Bourg-en-Bresse-to-Mâcon individual time trial reading as the closing twin-discipline benchmark for the closing combined Mas-Romeo book ahead of the closing 4 July Lille Grande Départ.

Lazkano carries the closing punchy-stage card on the cleanest pre-Tour Basque-corridor opportunist brief the closing Vitoria-Gasteiz-registered rider has tabled across the closing post-2024 Strade Bianche fourth-step podium reset. Closing Stage 1 Voiron-Voreppe opening-day outright opens at 14/1, with the closing Stage 5 Mâcon-to-Combloux mid-mountain reference reading as the closing single-card breakaway-stage opportunity at 16/1 across the closing major UK book. The closing 1,514-watt 14-second peak power read across his closing Strade Bianche fourth-step podium remains the cleanest single-rider closing-week punchy-stage reference Movistar have logged across the closing 2026 Spring window.

Iván Romeo opens the closing Stage 4 Mâcon ITT brief at 9/1 outright on a closing pre-Tour TT-discipline build window, contracting from a closing 12/1 pre-confirmation reference. The closing Salamanca-registered TT specialist carries the closing single-card closing-week individual time trial reference for the closing Movistar pre-Tour build, with his closing 19m 38s Itzulia Basque Country prologue reference reading as the closing single-rider sub-twenty-minute closing-week ITT split the squad have logged across the closing 2026 Spring window.

Closing combined Movistar Team Critérium du Dauphiné stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 38% across the closing eight-stage Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes window, the cleanest closing single-most-considered combined probability reference the Telefónica-backed squad have tabled at the twenty-eight-days-out checkpoint since the closing 2018 Quintana-Landa twin-card brief. Closing pre-Tour podium probability for Mas now reads at 24%, contracting from a closing 18% pre-confirmation reference, with the closing single-card protected-leadership pre-Tour Pyrenean-recon brief now formally locked through the closing seven-charter departure window from Pamplona to Lyon-Saint-Exupéry on the closing Saturday 6 June Voiron-Voreppe team-presentation podium reference.

Closing pre-Dauphiné build window for Mas now opens with the closing two-week Sierra Nevada altitude block from Tuesday 12 May through Tuesday 26 May, followed by the closing one-week Pyrenean climbing camp through the closing Saturday 6 June Voiron-Voreppe team-presentation reference. Closing pre-Tour de France GC outright for Mas now reads at 28/1 across the closing major UK book, contracting from a closing 33/1 pre-confirmation reference and now opening on the cleanest single-rider pre-Tour podium probability the Mallorcan climber has banked across the closing post-2024 Vuelta a España fourth-step podium recovery window.

Movistar Team Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Mas 9/2 GC Outright On A Closing Twin-Card Mas-Romeo Pyrenean-Recon Brief, Lazkano The Closing Punchy-Stage Card

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