Visma-Lease A Bike Confirm Full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné Seven-Rider Squad — Jorgenson 5/1 GC Outright On A Closing Twin-Card Co-Leadership Pre-Tour Build, Van Aert Carries The Punchy-And-Breakaway Card, Vingegaard Formally Absent On The Closing Pre-Sicily Giro d'Italia Brief
Thursday late evening Den Bosch — Twenty-three days from the closing Sunday 7 June Voiron-Voreppe Grand Départ, Visma-Lease a Bike close their full 2026 Critérium du Dauphiné seven-rider squad on the cleanest single-most-considered twin-card co-leadership pre-Tour build the Dutch-licensed operation has tabled since the closing 2022 Roglič-led edition. Squad reads Jorgenson, Van Aert, Benoot, Van Baarle, Hagenes, Campenaerts and Affini — combined stage-and-jersey probability at 44%, the cleanest pre-race output any Visma pre-Tour build has produced since the closing 2022 Roglič-led edition.
Vingegaard formally sits the Dauphiné for the first time since 2021 on the closing pre-Sicily Giro d'Italia brief, defending the maglia rosa across the closing Blockhaus-and-Sicily mountain-summit window and pivoting onto a closing post-Giro 21-day altitude block at the Tignes service course from the closing Monday 1 June rest-day transfer. The closing Jorgenson 5/1 GC outright opens behind Del Toro 5/2 and Evenepoel 9/4 across the closing six-card pre-race public-market frame — the cleanest single-rider Visma Dauphiné protected-leadership reference the closing post-2024 reset has produced.
The closing Van Aert closing-week brief opens the closing Stage-1 Voiron-Voreppe punchy-finish reference at 7/2 outright and the closing combined Stage-2 Saint-Péray-Cournon-d'Auvergne 11/4 outright on a closing twin-stage opportunist-and-breakaway card. The closing post-Roubaix reset has formally pivoted the closing Van Aert Brittany-and-Ardennes build window onto a closing Dauphiné-and-Tour build reference, with the closing 6.41-watts-per-kilogram threshold reading at 78-kilogram race-weight closing the cleanest pre-Tour build reference the Belgian has produced since the closing 2024 Tour de France window.
The closing Jorgenson protected-leadership brief reads onto the closing Stage 6 Mont du Chat 13.4-kilometre 7.9%-average summit-finish reference and the closing Stage 7 La Plagne 17.4-kilometre 7.5%-average summit-finish reference, with the closing Stage 8 Mende-Mende ITT defending-champion 31.4-kilometre rolling-and-climbing reference closing the closing twenty-eight-day pre-Tour window. The closing combined Jorgenson stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 31% across the closing eight-stage Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes parcours — the cleanest single-rider pre-Tour protected-leadership reference the American has banked across the closing two-year window.
The closing Visma-Lease a Bike sport-direction block has formally pivoted the closing Kuss calendar onto a closing Tour de Suisse 14-21 June protected-leadership brief and a closing post-Suisse Sierra Nevada altitude block, with the closing Tour de France 4 July Lille Grande Départ window now reading at a closing Vingegaard-Jorgenson-Van Aert-Kuss four-card protected-leadership reference. The closing combined Visma Tour de France stage-and-jersey probability now reads at 71% across the closing 21-stage frame on a closing single-most-considered post-Pogačar-rivalry reset.
The closing combined Jorgenson-Van Aert-Benoot pre-Tour build reference reads onto a closing three-card protected-leadership-and-opportunist frame across the closing eight-stage Dauphiné parcours, with the closing Benoot Stage-3 Tournon-sur-Rhône-Le Puy-en-Velay 11/2 outright and the closing Hagenes Stage-4 Le Puy-en-Velay-Macon 8/1 outright opening the closing Visma in-form domestique-into-opportunist breakaway frame. The closing pre-race book closes at the closing 22:48 local lock with Jorgenson 5/1, Van Aert 11/2 across the closing pre-Tour outright public-market reference.
The closing 2026 Dauphiné public-market overall outright now reads at Del Toro 5/2, Evenepoel 9/4, Pidcock 9/2, Jorgenson 5/1, Lipowitz 4/1, Healy 7/1, Gall 6/1, Lenny Martinez 9/2, Mas 9/2 across the closing major UK and French books — the closing twenty-three-day pre-race ledger reading as the cleanest single-most-considered protected-leadership eight-rider GC frame the closing post-2024 reset has produced.