S14 Ep155: The 2026 World Tour Review, Part II

We continue our trilogy of podcasts weighing up how every major team fared in the 2026 season in the last of two parts focusing on the World Tour.  

Tadej Pogačar’s latest annus mirabilis was curtailed midway through the Vuelta a España – but did that alter our final analysis of his UAE team’s 2026 campaign? Visma-Lease a bike of course endured similar misfortune when Jonas Vingegaard crashed out of the Tour de France. Was it enough to overshadow and maybe even spoil their season or did results thereafter, on the contrary, underline their roster’s depth and resilience?  

Daniel Friebe and Lionel Birnie address these questions and also review and grade the performances of Movistar, NSN, Picnic-PostNL, Redbull–BORA–hansgrohe, Soudal-Quickstep, Uno-X and XDS Astana. 

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