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One rider per competition. Win the General Classification for 500 pts, any other jersey for 400, the team prize for 250 — and these picks also bank stage points for every top-15 finish. You can pick the same rider for more than one slot, but stage points only count once.
Bonus picks earn a flat 50-pt award for picking the winner. They're not eligible for stage placement points.
Five more riders. Each time one finishes top 15 you bank points — 100 for a win, down to 1 for 15th — and they score every time it happens. Your classification picks earn stage points automatically, so you don't need to (and can't) add them here.
0/5 riders selected.
Predict the GC winner's total elapsed time across all 21 stages. Closest guess breaks any points tie.
| Year | Winner | Time | Distance | Density |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | this year | — | 2,071 mi | 86.3 |
| 2025 | Pogačar | 76h 00′ 32″ | 2,052 mi | 84.0 |
| 2024 | Pogačar | 83h 38′ 56″ | 2,174 mi | 78.8 |
| 2023 | Vingegaard | 82h 05′ 42″ | 2,116 mi | 89.0 |
| 2022 | Vingegaard | 79h 33′ 20″ | 2,068 mi | 77.0 |
| 2021 | Pogačar | 82h 56′ 36″ | 2,122 mi | 79.3 |
Density = vertical feet climbed per mile; higher means hillier. 2026 is the second-steepest of these six — though 2025's record-fast 76h on a similar profile shows a steep route doesn't lock in a slow time.
Picks lock at the Grand Départ on July 4.
The passcode was set when the pool was deployed. Results are validated server-side — the code never touches the leaderboard.
Everyone submits picks before the Grand Départ on July 4, drawn from the confirmed 2026 startlist. Results are pulled automatically through the three weeks, and the leaderboard scores itself on the PCS (ProCyclingStats) point scale — the same system used for real-world rankings.
Picks stay hidden until the Grand Départ. Everyone's selections and tiebreaker guess are kept private right up to the lock on July 4 — once the race starts, all picks are revealed at once and the leaderboard goes live. No one can see your strategy beforehand, so you can lock in whenever you like.
Classification picks earn points by final standings position. GC uses the GC scale; Points, KOM and Young Rider use the Classification scale; Team uses the Team scale. They also earn stage points for any T-15 finish.
Pool picks — your 5 riders earn points for every top-15 stage finish on the Stage scale.
Bonus picks — Souvenir Henri Desgrange and the Super Combative Prize pay a flat 50 pts for the winner. No placement scale.
Daily bonuses — 25 pts each stage a pick wins the combativity award; 1 pt per km any pick spends in the breakaway.
Ties are broken by the closest predicted GC winner total time.
Built from the confirmed startlist as of June 29 — 150 of 184 riders across all 23 teams. Final rosters land by July 1.
Every July, the best cyclists on Earth line up for the most brutal test in sport — 21 days of racing from the Spanish coast, over the Pyrenees and the Alps, to the cobbles of Paris. They hold an average of 26 miles an hour for three straight weeks. Most will never pull on a jersey or win a stage. They go anyway — just finishing the Tour is the achievement of a career.
The 2026 route covers 2,071 miles — the distance from New York to Salt Lake City — and packs 178,000 feet of climbing along the way. That is Mount Everest, from sea level, summited six times over.
They do it in roughly 80 hours of racing: descents at 60 mph, mountain passes in the cold, tar gone soft in the heat. There are only two rest days in the entire three weeks — and even those aren't truly rest, since most riders still spin out an easy hour or two to keep their legs from seizing up. The yellow jersey goes to whoever endures every mile of it in the lowest total time. Your job is simple — pick who survives.
July 4–26, 2026 — 21 stages from Barcelona to Paris (Champs-Élysées). The Grand Départ is July 4; your picks lock at that point.
Watch: every stage streams live on Peacock. NBC airs the Grand Départ, the Paris finale, and select mountain stages. The official Tour YouTube channel posts daily highlight recaps.
Track results: ProCyclingStats has live standings and rider profiles — the source this pool scores from.
The world's most prestigious cycling race: 21 stages across three weeks in July, starting in Barcelona and finishing on the Champs-Élysées. Each stage is one day's racing — some flat, some through the Alps and Pyrenees, some individual races against the clock.
About 180 riders from 23 teams start together. The overall winner is whoever finishes all 21 stages with the lowest total elapsed time.
Alongside the overall race, three other competitions run the whole three weeks. Each leader wears a different jersey.
★ Queen stage — Stage 20 crosses the Col du Galibier (2,642 m), the race's highest point. The first rider over wins the Souvenir Henri Desgrange.
The breakaway — early on, 3–10 riders attack off the front and build a lead. The peloton lets them go if none threaten the overall, then controls the gap. On flat days they're almost always caught; in the mountains they can survive. Picks in a breakaway earn 1 pt / km in front.
The peloton — the main pack of 150+ riders drafting together. Riding in a group cuts wind resistance dramatically, which is how a well-organised peloton chases down a breakaway that left 30 minutes up the road.
The finish — the last 3 km decide it. On flat stages, sprint trains form and the fastest sprinter wins; in the mountains, GC leaders attack on the final climb. Pool picks in the top 15 earn Stage scale pts — 100 for a win, 1 for 15th.