agonist/antigonist

 The return of the king...again. Previously... Tadej Pogacar easily dispatched all-comers for the second year in a row, taking four stages and the mountains classification in the process. Jonathan Milan won the points competition and Florian Lipowitz the young rider classification. Wout van Aert won the final stage on the non-traditional but now canonical  Champs-Élysées. The (only) one that got away            The Course  Starts in Catalunya, then hits the Pyrenees before the Massif Central, then the Vosges mountains, and finally the Alps before the finish in Paris. There are rumblings of independence protests in during the Barcelona stages, so we'll see if the race can start without a hitch or if we'll see some 2025 Vuelta-style neutralized or preemptive finishes .  The 2026 route in all its glory    To be blunt, we Pogacar in the race, any stage has the potential to be a decisive. But, regardless, here are some of my key sta...