Bringing the yellow jersey back to Nice may be complicated, but the list of entrants promises some French stage victories this year. With 32 French riders, 18% of the peloton will be blue-white-red. Among them, former stage winners on the Grande Boucle, athletes capable of competing in the general classification in the past, specialists in the classics or even youngsters ready to take on their first Tour.
Christophe Laporte (31 years old) will wear the bib with the lowest number since he will accompany the reigning champion, Jonas Vingegaard within the armada of Team Visma-Lease a Bike). Pavel Sivakov (26 years old), who obtained French sporting nationality in 2022 will also be the only Tricolor at UAE Team Emirates, like Julien Bernard (32 years old) at Lidl-Trek.
Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale has five French riders: Bruno Armirail (30 years old), Paul Lapeira (24 years old), Dorian Godon (28 years old), Nans Peters (30 years old) and Nicolas Prodhomme (27 years old). That is one less than Groupama-FDJ, armed with David Gaudu (27 years old), Romain Grégoire (21 years old), Lenny Martinez (20 years old), Valentin Madouas (27 years old), Quentin Pacher (32 years old) and Clément Russo (29 years old).
TotalEnergies with 7 French people
Axel Laurance (24 years old) will be alone at the heart of the Alpecin-Deceuninck formation. There will be four Frenchmen for Cofidis – Bryan Coquard (32 years old), Guillaume Martin (31 years old), Alexis Renard (25 years old) and Axel Zingle (25 years old) – and three at Arkea-B & B Hotels – Arnaud Démare (32 years old), Kévin Vauquelin (23 years old), Clément Champoussin (26 years old).
Hugo Page (22 years old) will participate for the Intermarché-Wanty team. The Dutch team DSM-firmenich PostNL have chosen the experienced Romain Bardet (33 years old) and Warren Barguil (32 years old). Finally, TotalEnergies will be the most French team with seven elements: Mathieu Burgaudeau (25 years old), Anthony Turgis (30 years old), Jordan Jegat (25 years old), Thomas Gachignard (23 years old), Mattéo Vercher (23 years old), Sandy Dujardin (27 years old) and Fabien Grellier (29 years old).
