Movistar Team

While the roots of the Movistar men's team go back some 40 years, its women's team is only in its ninth season. It joined the WorldTour circuit in 2020 and stepped up a gear the following year with the unexpected signing of Annemiek van Vleuten. The Dutch rider finished 2021 ranked world number one, as she had in 2017 and 2018. In 2022, she won the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and secured a fourth world title.

Crowned Olympic time trial champion in Tokyo, the Dutch rider retired at the end of 2023. However, the next generation was already emerging, with Liane Lippert and Emma Norsgaard winning stages 2 and 6 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, which Van Vleuten ultimately finished in fourth place overall.

Arriving from SD Worx–Protime in early 2025, Marlen Reusser became the new centrepiece of the Spanish team. The Swiss rider, winner of stage 4 in 2022 and the time trial in Pau in 2024, made a premature exit from the 2025 edition after a crash knocked her out in stage 1, the latest in a long string of setbacks. However, everything seems to be falling into place going into the 2026 edition, with the extra motivation that the Grand Départ is set to take place in her home country a few weeks after her Tour de Suisse victory, while the time trial will give her the chance to show off her rainbow jersey after finally getting her hands on it in 2025. Riding in her slipstream, the Englishwoman Cat Ferguson is one of the most exciting prospects in women's cycling.