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Jan 30, 2026

Tour de France wildcards awarded to TotalEnergies and Caja Rural

ASO has awarded wildcards for the 2026 Tour de France to French team TotalEnergies and Spain's Caja Rural-Seguros RGA, confirming Thursday's report in Le Parisien that Unibet Rose Rockets would miss out.

They join the top-three-ranked ProTeams Cofidis, Tudor and Pinarello-Q36.5 who are guaranteed an invite based on their performance in 2025.

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Van Schip DQed from Ronde l'Oise over bottle in jersey

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Jan-Willen van Schip (Azerion-Villa Valkenburg) has been disqualified from yet another race. This time, the 31-year-old Dutchman – DQed from the Tour of Hellas last month over his positioning on the handlebars – was kicked out of the UCI 2.2-rated Ronde l'Oise on Sunday's stage 4. Officially,
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Charmig takes his first WorldTour win on stage 2 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Charmig takes his first WorldTour win on stage 2 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Anthon Charmig (Uno-X Mobility) soloed out of the breakaway to take the biggest win of his career on Monday's stage 2 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The 28-year-old Dane was in a group of seven escapees that hit the day's final climb, the Côte de Saint-Vidal, with