Amidst the sweltering warmth of the Australian summer time, the Tour Down Beneath kickstarts the lads’s and girls’s WorldTour calendars in frenetic fashion.
Riders head to the Southern Hemisphere to start their seasons as a result of testing parcours that Adelaide and its surrounding countryside provide, with ample alternatives for sprinters and climbers alike.
In 2026, this seems to be to be no completely different for the respective Tour Down Beneath routes, with the lads tackling a brand new prologue round Adelaide’s metropolis streets, returning to the Corkscrew and Willunga Hill climbs, and the hardest last stage but in Stirling. In the meantime, the ladies’s peloton will take within the longest stage within the race’s historical past to open proceedings, and a twin assault of the Corkscrew climb on the third and last day to shake up GC proceedings.
Whereas startlists for each races are but to be confirmed, house favorite Ben O’Connor (Jayco AlUla) is pencilled in, whereas so too the ladies’s highway world champion, Magdalene Vallieres (EF Schooling-Oatly) – marking a primary look for the rainbow jersey within the ladies’s race.
Given the restricted info concerning who is ready to line up in Adelaide this coming January, predicting who will go away with the enduring ochre chief’s jerseys is extra of a problem than climbing Willunga Hill thrice in in the future. Nonetheless, one factor that’s for sure is that Cyclingnews can be in South Australia for gripping editions of each the lads’s and girls’s WorldTour season openers.
As a part of our unrivalled protection, we’ll convey you stage previews, key contenders for each races, and reside minute-by-minute experiences for every day of racing. Australian Editor Simone Giuliani can be on the bottom in Adelaide to convey you in-depth evaluation, breaking information because it occurs, and unique interviews with among the main names racing down underneath.
With it being the opening WorldTour races of the season, we’ll be protecting a detailed eye on the brand new tech and kits on present too, sharing an in-depth tech gallery with our subscribers courtesy of skilled photographer Chris Auld, who can be on the bottom in Adelaide for us.
On prime of all our unique content material from on the bottom in Australia, our international Cyclingnews workforce in Europe and North America will guarantee you do not miss out on any of the motion or storylines from the Tour Down Beneath, with around-the-clock reporting.
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