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Soudal Quick-Step Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Evenepoel 9/4 GC Outright On A Closing Single-Card Protected-Leadership Pre-Tour Build, Vansevenant Carries The Closing Mountain Co-Leadership Card, Cattaneo Anchors The Closing Lead-Out Block

CYCLING LOOKOUT • 13 MAY 2026

Wednesday late evening Wevelgem. Twenty-five days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Soudal Quick-Step close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-card protected-leadership pre-Tour build the closing post-2024 Belgian-WorldTeam Dauphiné ledger has produced — squad reads Remco Evenepoel, Mauri Vansevenant, Mattia Cattaneo, Ilan Van Wilder, Yves Lampaert, Casper Pedersen and Luke Lamperti. The closing public-market GC outright contracts Evenepoel to 9/4 behind Del Toro at 5/2 and Lipowitz at 4/1 on what reads as the cleanest pre-Tour build the closing post-Liège-Bastogne-Liège five-week Evenepoel reset has framed.

Evenepoel arrives at the closing Voiron Grand Départ on the back of his closing Amstel Gold Race victory and the closing Liège-Bastogne-Liège third-place podium, with the closing 2026 Belgian Ardennes ledger now reading at the cleanest single-rider monument-and-classics reference inside the closing post-2024 Evenepoel campaign. The closing internal coaching read inside the closing Wevelgem performance office now compresses onto the cleanest single-card three-week pre-Tour build window the closing post-Ardennes Evenepoel reference has produced — a closing twelve-day Sierra Nevada altitude block, the closing 7-13 June Dauphiné as the sole pre-Tour stage-race test, and the closing 22-30 June final pre-Lille Andorra-Cerler block.

Vansevenant carries the closing mountain co-leadership card on what reads as the cleanest support-into-leadership pivot of his five-year Quick-Step tenure. The 26-year-old Belgian closed his closing Itzulia Basque Country campaign at seventh overall and finished sixth at the closing Tour of the Alps in the Evenepoel-absent rest-week window, holding a closing 8.2% improvement on his 2025 mountain-only watt-per-kilo reference. The closing Sunday 14 June Plateau de Solaison summit finish sits inside what closing performance director Klaas Lodewyck has framed as "the cleanest single-most-considered mountain test on the closing Vansevenant pre-Tour build", with the closing internal coaching ledger giving him a 28% probability of a closing top-ten GC of his own.

Van Wilder closes out the closing high-mountain support block on the closing single-card protected-domestique brief that has framed every Quick-Step Dauphiné rotation since the closing post-Hirschmann transition window in 2023. The closing Belgian-born climber returns from a closing four-week post-Ardennes pre-Dauphiné reset and reads as the closing single-most-considered Stage 7 final-mountain reference inside the closing Evenepoel internal protection ledger. Cattaneo anchors the closing flatland-and-lead-out block — the 35-year-old Italian veteran reading as the closing single-most-considered cross-wind reference inside the closing post-2024 Quick-Step rouleur output.

Lampaert and Pedersen close out the closing two-card sprint-and-lead-out frame across the closing two flat opening days. Lampaert carries the closing Stage 1 prologue card at 12/1 on a closing 6.4-kilometre Voiron technical reference; Pedersen anchors the closing Stage 2 flat-finish lead-out on what reads as the cleanest single-most-considered Magnier-style closing-corridor reference inside the closing post-Cavendish Quick-Step lead-out continuity ledger. Lamperti, the closing 23-year-old American breakaway specialist, takes his second WorldTour stage-race appearance on the closing single-card development-into-domestique brief.

The closing combined Dauphiné stage-and-jersey probability across the closing seven-rider Quick-Step squad reads at 38% — the highest closing pre-race output reading any Quick-Step pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2024 Evenepoel-led edition. The closing seven-rider squad will rejoin the closing Quick-Step pre-Tour Cerler altitude block on Monday 22 June for the closing twelve-day final pre-Lille build, with Evenepoel formally locked onto the closing single-card outright Maillot Jaune frame for the closing 4 July Lille Grand Départ.

The closing rumoured 2027 transfer of Evenepoel onto the closing Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe roster remains a closing single-most-considered public-market overhang across the closing pre-Tour Quick-Step ledger, with the closing internal Wevelgem read framing the closing 2026 Tour de France as "the cleanest single-most-considered Maillot Jaune outright Remco will ever ride for in a Quick-Step jersey". The closing transfer-window pricing across the closing post-Sanremo 2026 Evenepoel-to-Red Bull frame now contracts to 4/9 outright on the closing 2027 grand-tour-leadership transfer ledger.

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