Starting his tenth Tour de France, the Bury-born climber is the elder statesman of Pogačar's mountain guard. Yates has done it all at this race — white jersey, yellow jersey, a stage win and a podium in 2023 — and now channels that pedigree into pacing the world champion on the hardest slopes of the Pyrenees and Alps. When UAE need a high-altitude bodyguard in the final kilometres, it is usually Yates who is last to peel off.
Palmarès
- 3rd overall + stage 1 winner (Bilbao), Tour de France (2023)
- Best young rider & 4th overall, Tour de France (2016)
- Tour de Suisse GC winner (2024)
- Tour de Romandie GC winner (2023, 2025)
- UAE Tour GC winner (2020)
- Clásica de San Sebastián winner (2015)
Cut-out factHe outsprinted his identical twin Simon for the 2023 Tour's opening stage in Bilbao — a brotherly one-two on the world's biggest stage.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Tadej Pogačar, Isaac Del Toro, Tim Wellens, Brandon McNulty, Florian Vermeersch, Nils Politt, Felix Großschartner — see the full UAE Emirates-XRG team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2).
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