The 2026 Tour de France kicked off with a novel and thoroughly gratifying team time trial through Barcelona, individual times recorded for each rider rather than the traditional fourth-man rule. Netcompany INEOS, powered by Filippo Ganna, set the early benchmark before Visma | Lease a Bike snatched the top time behind a perfectly executed lead-out for Jonas Vingegaard. Tadej Pogačar, riding the anchor leg with Isaac del Toro for UAE Emirates-XRG, came up just 12 seconds short, handing Vingegaar