2026 Tour de France Competition: FINAL STANDINGS

[Clacton White]

3 pogacar

[Cowboy Dan]

Stage 3 - Gregoire

[marie67]

Late for todays stage so I'll go for someone not in the break.

Mathias Vacek

[Finnatic]

Is the stage winner prediction the only one we need to change daily, as I’ve missed yesterday and today?

[Evan R]

Is the stage winner prediction the only one we need to change daily, as I’ve missed yesterday and today?

Correct. You're no worse for wear though! (nobody has scored any stage winners, yet)

[Finnatic]

Correct. You're no worse for wear though! (nobody has scored any stage winners, yet)

phew - I’ll watch the highlights tonight and if they preview tomorrow’s stage I’ll do it for stage 4 or I’ll look it up on a website

[Clacton White]

4 Evenpoel

[Evan R]

A decent third stage. Sizable breakaway stayed away for the better part of the day. Valliant effort from Alex Baudin of EF Education-EasyPost, earning himself most aggressive rider for the stage. Ultimately, the peloton closed him down leading to what's become a pretty standard Tadej stage winning formula. His acceleration is truly unmatched.

As for our contest- congrats to Clacton who gets the first stage winner and 10 points awarded.
Narrow miss for John R, who had Seixas come in 4th for the stage.

Stage 4: Carcassonne - Foix
Date: July 7, 2026
Distance: 181.9km
Start time: 13:10 CET
Finish time: 17:34 CET




Stage 4 Winner odds

Mads Pedersen
+300
Mathieu van der Poel
+700
Mathias Vacek
+1400
Romain Grégoire
+2000
Jasper Philipsen
+2200
Quinn Simmons
+2200
Dorian Godon
+2500
Magnus Cort Nielsen
+2500
Maxim Van Gils
+2500
Biniam Girmay
+2800
Michael Matthews
+2800
Ben Healy
+3300
Filippo Ganna
+4000
Jonas Abrahamsen
+4000
Alex Aranburu
+5000
Jasper Stuyven
+5000
Javier Romo
+5000
Jenno Berckmoes
+5000
Tadej Pogačar
+5000
Kévin Vauquelin
+6600
Marco Frigo
+6600
Mauro Schmid
+6600
Pablo Castrillo
+6600
Quinten Hermans
+6600
Sean Quinn
+6600
Tim Wellens
+6600
Tom Pidcock
+6600
Fred Wright
+8000
Isaac Del Toro
+8000
Michael Valgren
+8000
Olav Kooij
+8000
Toms Skujiņš
+8000
Valentin Paret-Peintre
+8000
Vlad Van Mechelen
+8000
Lennert Van Eetvelt
+10000
Luke Plapp
+10000
Ramses Debruyne
+10000
Tobias Foss
+10000
Huub Artz
+12500
Julian Alaphilippe
+12500
Matteo Trentin
+12500
Alex Baudin
+15000
Anthon Charmig
+15000
Anthony Turgis
+15000
Brandon McNulty
+15000
Emiel Verstrynge
+15000
Georg Zimmermann
+15000
Harold Tejada
+15000
Liam Slock
+15000
Marc Hirschi
+15000
Matej Mohorič
+15000
Remco Evenepoel
+15000
Stefano Oldani
+15000
Tiesj Benoot
+15000
Alex Molenaar
+20000
Aurelien Paret-Peintre
+20000
Benjamin Thomas
+20000
Davide Ballerini
+20000
Egan Bernal
+20000
Ion Izagirre
+20000
Joel Nicolau
+20000
Matteo Jorgenson
+20000
Max Kanter
+20000
Simone Velasco
+20000
Alexandre Delettre
+25000
Felix Engelhardt
+25000
Frank van den Broek
+25000
Ilan Van Wilder
+25000
Jordan Jegat
+25000
Kasper Asgreen
+25000
Lenny Martinez
+25000
Louis Vervaeke
+25000
Mattéo Vercher
+25000
Raúl García Pierna
+25000
Ben O'Connor
+30000
Derek Gee-West
+30000
Dylan van Baarle
+30000
Ewen Costiou
+30000
Joris Delbove
+30000
Joshua Tarling
+30000
Juan Ayuso
+30000
Lewis Askey
+30000
Mattias Skjelmose
+30000
Michael Storer
+30000
Mike Teunissen
+30000
Pascal Eenkhoorn
+30000
Pavel Bittner
+30000
Quentin Pacher
+30000
Richard Carapaz
+30000
Robert Stannard
+30000
Sergio Higuita
+30000
Søren Wærenskjold
+30000
Tobias Halland Johannessen
+30000

[Evan R]

Daily Stage Winner Selections

Clacton White
Stage 1- UAE- 0 points
Stage 2- Merlier- 0 points
Stage 3- Pogacar- 10 points
Stage 4- Evenepoel- 0 points
Stage 5- Philipsen- 0 points
Stage 6- Pogacar

Cowboy Dan
Stage 1- Ineos- 0 points
Stage 2- van der Poel- 0 points
Stage 3- Gregoire- 0 points
Stage 4- Gregoire- 0 points
Stage 5- Merlier- 3 points

Finnatic
Stage 1- UAE- 0 points
Stage 2- NR- 0 points
Stage 3- NR- 0 points
Stage 4- van der Poel- 0 points
Stage 5- Philipsen- 0 points

Pullhard
Stage 1- Ineos- 0 points
Stage 2- van der Poel- 0 points
Stage 3- Healy- 0 points
Stage 4- Vacek- 0 points
Stage 5- Philipsen- 0 points

marie67
Stage 1- Ineos- 0 points
Stage 2- Pedersen- 0 points
Stage 3- Vacek- 0 points
Stage 4- Godon- 0 points
Stage 5- Merlier- 3 points
Stage 6- Pogacar

Evan R
Stage 1- UAE- 0 points
Stage 2- Pidcock- 0 points
Stage 3- Vacek- 0 points
Stage 4- Cort- 0 points
Stage 5- Philipsen- 0 points

John R
Stage 1- Ineos- 0 points
Stage 2- van der Poel- 0 points
Stage 3- Seixas- 0 points
Stage 4- van der Poel- 0 points
Stage 5- Merlier- 3 points
Stage 6- O'Connor


Stage Winner Totals

Clacton White- 10 points
Cowboy Dan- 3 points
John R- 3 points
marie67- 3 points
Finnatic- 0 points
Pullhard- 0 points
marie67- 3 points
Evan R- 0 points

[marie67]

Stage 4 Godon

[Chilli D]

I think it's safe to say, as long as he doesn't fall off, Pogacer is going to to win this again. He's just toying with the others.

[marie67]

Wish i had not picked Ineos in the team classification.

They are not looking strong this year without Onley and Rodriguez.

[Finnatic]

Stage 4 - van der Poel

[Pullhard]

Stage 4 - Vacek

[Cowboy Dan]

Stage 4 - Gregoire

[Evan R]

I think it's safe to say, as long as he doesn't fall off, Pogacer is going to to win this again. He's just toying with the others.

Agree but not sure the first few stages have shown us a whole lot. As usual, it will be the high mountains where we really find out. If Jonas has any hope at all, it would be cracking Pog in the Alps later on.

[Chilli D]

Agree but not sure the first few stages have shown us a whole lot. As usual, it will be the high mountains where we really find out. If Jonas has any hope at all, it would be cracking Pog in the Alps later on.

It would certainly keep it interesting but the UAE team is so strong I can't see Visma being able to live with it.

[Evan R]

It would certainly keep it interesting but the UAE team is so strong I can't see Visma being able to live with it.

It is crazy how strong they are. Del Toro looks so good. But I do think even with a weaker team, if Jonas can hang on Tadej's wheel in the mountains, let UAE do all the tactical stuff, it will mostly come down to the two of them battling each other to their limit in the high mountaints. That said- I still massively favor Tadej in that scenario. But we have seen Jonas out class him in the high mountains before so not totally writing it off.

[Evan R]

Unfortunately was not able to catch much of today's stage, which looked to be a good one. UAE let the break go away and Lidl-Trek had the support in the end to let Mads go for an easy stage win. Will go back and watch some highlights but there looked to be a good amount of breakaway attempts from the initial breakaway.

For our purposes- a blank day.

On to Stage 5. Set up for a bunch sprint finish.

Stage 5: Lannemezan - Pau
Date: July 8, 2026
Distance: 158.3km
Start time: 14:05 CET
Finish time: 17:46 CET



Stage 5 Winner Odds *I decided to stop posting as long of odds here, for space. It seems everyone here has a pretty good sense of the field and can look up longer shots should they like*

Tim Merlier
+200
Jasper Philipsen
+250
Biniam Girmay
+380
Olav Kooij
+440
Mads Pedersen
+2000
Milan Fretin
+3300
Mathieu van der Poel
+3300
Dorian Godon
+5500
Max Kanter
+6000
Soren Waerenskjold
+8000
Fernando Gaviria
+8000
Arvid De Kleijn
+8000
Mathias Vacek
+8000
Pavel Bittner
+12500
Tadej Pogacar
+12500
Jonas Abrahamsen
+12500
Phil Bauhaus
+15000
Filippo Ganna
+15000

[Evan R]

Stage 5 picks:

Evan R- Philipsen
John R- Merlier