The grand old man of this Movistar eight, Oliveira starts his tenth Tour de France and a remarkable 24th Grand Tour at 37. In his eleventh season with the Spanish squad, the Portuguese time-trial machine is Eusebio Unzué's most trusted lieutenant — the man who organizes the team on the road, shelters leaders from the wind and shepherds them through crosswind chaos. His job in July: guide debutant Uijtdebroeks through every difficult moment.
Palmarès
- Vuelta a España stage 13 winner (2015)
- 4th UCI World Championships time trial (2017)
- Five-time Portuguese national time trial champion (2011, 2014–2016 and more)
- Portuguese national road race champion (2014)
- Three-time Olympian in the time trial (2012, 2016, 2020)
Cut-out factHe has raced the time trial at three Olympic Games and finished an agonizing 4th at the 2017 Worlds TT — arguably the best time trialist of his generation never to win a rainbow jersey.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Cian Uijtdebroeks, Pablo Castrillo, Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda, Raúl García Pierna, Michel Hessmann, Javier Romo, Einer Rubio — see the full Movistar team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Granada, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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