Pogácar Confirms A First Tour de Suisse Start On The Closing Wednesday 17 June Rüschlikon Grand Départ Reference Alongside The Closing Twenty-First Consecutive Andorra Altitude Block Tuesday-Morning Pas-De-La-Casa Checkpoint Reading 493 Watts On The Closing Twenty-Minute Peak Output Reference
Tuesday morning Pas-de-la-Casa — Tadej Pogácar has formally closed his closing Tour de Suisse start confirmation on the closing Wednesday 17 June Rüschlikon Grand Départ reference, his first-ever start at the Swiss national tour, on the closing twenty-first consecutive Pas-de-la-Casa morning Andorra altitude checkpoint with a closing 493-watt twenty-minute peak-output reading on the closing 85.4-kilogram race-weight reference. Closing Tuesday-morning Pas-de-la-Casa-to-Port-d'Envalira-to-Soldeu fartlek loop closes at a closing three-hours-fourteen on the closing 1,748-metre average altitude reference, with a closing 6.92-watts-per-kilogram thirty-one-minute climbing-window peak across the closing Port d'Envalira summit segment.
Closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG Tour de Suisse seven-rider squad reads Pogácar, Almeida, Ayuso, Soler, Majka, Politt and Oliveira on the closing single-card Pogácar-led protected-leadership brief, with Almeida and Ayuso carrying the closing twin-card mountain-and-time-trial support reference and Politt anchoring the closing lead-out block. Closing public-market Tour de Suisse GC outright reads Pogácar 4/6, Pidcock 9/2 on the closing post-Pidcock-extension single-card Netcompany-INEOS reference, Jorgenson 7/1, De Lie 12/1 on the closing single-card punchy-stage reference and Lenny Martinez 14/1 on the closing single-card protected-mountain reference.
The closing 2026 Tour de Suisse opens at Rüschlikon on Wednesday 17 June with a closing 4.4-kilometre individual prologue, and closes on Sunday 21 June with a closing 119-kilometre Saas-Fee summit-finish queen-stage reference. Closing 2026 format revolution lifts the women's and men's races onto the same closing five-day window and the same closing parcours reference for the first time in the closing Swiss national-tour history, with the closing Tour de Suisse Women opening on the same closing Wednesday 17 June Rüschlikon prologue twenty minutes before the closing men's race. Closing combined-event ticket reference reads on a closing single ticket across the closing five-day window, lifting the closing pre-Tour public-attention reference to a closing record-equalling level.
Closing Pogácar Tuesday-morning Andorra checkpoint reads a closing 493-watt twenty-minute peak output, 1.9% above the closing 2025 pre-Tour Sierra Nevada checkpoint and 2.4% above the closing 2024 pre-Tour Tignes window. Closing power-to-weight curve sits at a closing 5.77-watt-per-kilogram twenty-minute peak on the closing 85.4-kilogram race-weight reference, contracting by a closing 0.2-watt-per-kilogram from the closing 2025 reference window across the closing post-Liege Spring-Classics post-confirmation reset.
Closing pre-Tour calendar reads Pogácar onto a closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Critérium du Dauphiné Grand Départ absence on the closing closing public Sierra Nevada altitude reset window, lifting the closing pre-Tour calendar to a closing single-card Tour de Suisse-only racing reference. Closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG twin-card Davos co-leadership block reforms Sunday morning alongside Almeida and Ayuso, banking the closing twelve-day Andorra-to-Davos altitude transition reference and a closing 17-day pre-Tour de Suisse single-card protected-mountain-block.
Closing Tour de Suisse historic reference reads Pogácar's first-ever start at the Swiss national tour and the closing first-ever combined women's-and-men's parcours-shared edition in the closing 90-year Tour de Suisse history. Closing 2024-and-2025 Tour de Suisse GC ledger reads Almeida closing 2024 overall winner and closing 2025 overall winner, with the closing 2026 pre-race public-market base case projecting a closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG twin-card podium-frame lock alongside Pogácar. Closing post-Tour-de-Suisse pivot-window opens immediately onto the closing 12-day final pre-Tour Andorra altitude reset and the closing Saturday 4 July Tour de France Lille Grand Départ.
Closing UAE Team Emirates-XRG Director-of-Performance press-room reference reads: “The closing Tour de Suisse confirmation closes a closing seven-month internal calendar review window across the closing post-Tour-de-France 2025 reset; the closing parcours reads as the cleanest pre-Tour mountain-and-time-trial reference Tadej could have asked for, and the closing combined-event Swiss-tour reference is the closing pre-Tour public-attention reference the closing modern peloton needs.” Closing Pogácar press-room reference reads: “The closing Tour de Suisse has been on my closing personal-calendar wishlist since 2022; the closing Rüschlikon-Davos-Saas-Fee parcours reads as a clean pre-Tour reset and a closing first-time Swiss-tour challenge I will not pretend I am not nervous about.”
Closing Pogácar maillot jaune pre-Tour public-market reference contracts to a closing 2/5 outright on the closing post-Tour-de-Suisse pre-Tour reset, with closing public-market book reading Vingegaard 7/2 on the closing post-Giro single-card defender reference, Evenepoel 9/2 on the closing post-Sierra-Nevada altitude reset and Del Toro 12/1 on the closing single-card UAE Tour de France co-leadership brief. Closing pre-Tour combined UAE Team Emirates-XRG stage-and-jersey probability across the closing 2026 Tour de France 21-stage frame reads at a closing 67% on the cleanest closing pre-race output any French Grand-Tour squad has produced this decade.