Tour 2026: Barcelona start and Alpe d'Huez hammer

The Tour de France 2026 radically breaks with routine and relies on a route that makes resistance futile. For the first time in 55 years, a team time trial opens the tour, and the setting for this historic Grand Départ is Barcelona. What sounds like a Spanish festival program quickly turns out to be a tactical miner before the peloton is chased along 3,333 kilometers towards Paris.