Lotto-Intermarché: 2026 Tour de France: De Lie and Van Eetvelt headline

2025 Tour de France:

• 2025 Tour stage wins: 0 
• 2025 Best GC finish: 66th - Jenno Berckmoes

2026 Objectives:

Lotto-Intermarché enters the Tour with a flexible stage hunting strategy built around Arnaud De Lie. The Belgian will focus on fast finishes and tougher sprint stages, where his power can make the difference.

Lennert Van Eetvelt and Georg Zimmermann offer options on climbing and rolling terrain, with both riders expected to look for opportunities from breakaways.

Huub Artz, Jenno Berckmoes, Liam Slock, Lars Craps and Baptiste Veistroffer complete a youthful squad that will aim to race proactively throughout the three weeks.

The team’s main ambition is clear: create chances across multiple stage profiles and convert one of them into a victory.

🇧🇪 Arnaud De Lie (24): When at his best, Arnaud De Lie is electric. However, the former Belgian Champion has struggled for consistency in parts this season, despite winning two races on home soil in Belgium. In his two Tour appearances in 2024 and 2025, De Lie has managed third-place stage finishes, and if he can find the magic that lands him a stage win, that would be a statement moment for the 24-year-old. 

🇩🇪 Georg Zimmermann (28): Zimmermann's standout moment of the season came on home roads at Eschborn-Frankfurt, where he sprinted to victory from a small group in the German stripes as National Champion. The German is lining up for his sixth consecutive Tour, and could be one to strike from a breakaway. He was second on a stage in 2023. 

🇫🇷 Baptiste Veistroffer (26): If there was anyone who could emulate the breakaway mastery of Thomas De Gendt, then it's the 26-year-old Frenchman, who is making his Grand Tour debut. Veistroffer has been in countless breakaways this season at WorldTour races such as the Volta a Catalunya, Itzulia Basque Country, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

🇧🇪 Jenno Berckmoes (25): The versatile Belgian made his Grand Tour debut at the Tour last summer. Berckmoes packs a punch from a reduced group and is on the cusp of a big result after finishing second overall at the recent Baloise Belgium Tour.

🇧🇪 Lennert van Eetvelt (24): The 24-year-old Belgian started the Giro well, making an early selection forced by Jonas Vingegaard on the hilly roads of Bulgaria. Van Eetvelt was forced out of the race after a crash on stage 11 while he was in the breakaway, leaving him with a broken finger. 

🇧🇪 Liam Slock (25): Slock recently took the first professional victory of his career at the GP Gippingen in Switzerland, and it became a viral moment as the Belgian crashed over the finish line while celebrating. If he finds himself in a similar position in his Tour debut, he will surely not make the same mistake.

🇧🇪 Lars Craps (24): The 24-year-old Belgian got off to a late start in 2026 due to having to undergo surgery. However, the form of Craps appears to be building nicely as he finished 14th overall at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and featured in two breakaways.

🇳🇱 Huub Artz (24): The former under-23 European road race champion recently took his first professional victory by becoming the Dutch time trial champion. Artz is a powerful rider who, like many in his team, has proven his eagerness to feature in breakaways, as he did so at the Amstel Gold Race in April.