2026 Tour de France Stage 7 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 7 of the 2026 Tour de France! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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Most riders must be thinking 'hip-hip-hooray' as they leave the Pyrenees behind. At the end of a 175-kilometre race from Hagetmau to Bordeaux, the sprinters’ powerful legs are expected to shine. After all, Bordeaux is a city made for sprints.
It's a first for Hagetmau. No Tour de France stage has ever begun or finished in the town on the Via del VĂ©zelay pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela.
At the other end of the spectrum is Bordeaux. The capital of the Gironde has hosted a Tour stage finish 133 times. It’s safe to bet on a sprinter, with past winners including Jasper Philipsen (2023), Marc Cavendish (2010), Tom Steels (1999), Erik Zabel (1997), and Frédérique Moncassin (1996).
A painful story in 2023 ended happily in 2024. Marc Cavendish was relentlessly chasing the record for most Tour stage wins. In Bordeaux 2023, he came close to dethroning Eddy Merckx with a 35th stage victory, only for Jasper Philipsen to block him. Ouch! Cavendish’s next chance in 2023 never came, as he crashed the following day heavily and was forced to abandon in tears.
Yet the ManX Missile decided to stay in the peloton for one more year, and Tour history eventually smiled upon him. In 2024, at Saint-Vulbas, he finally claimed the record. That second-place finish in Bordeaux 2023 had kept his belief alive.
As mentioned, a sprint finish in Bordeaux seems all but guaranteed. There is only one climb along the way: the CĂ´te de BĂ©guey, 1.6 kilometres at 4.2%, with the summit just under 40 kilometres from the finish. Get more details at cyclingstage.com.
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