Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes stage 3 LIVE: Pivotal team time trial set to reshape overall standings

Uno-X Mobility and Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe the next teams off. Four left to go.

Movistar out on the road.

Lidl-Trek have just started and now Paul Seixas' Decathlon CMA CGM get underway.

Movistar go quicker still, five seconds up with a time of 10:54.

UAE go quickest at the first checkpoint now. They're the first team to go under 11 minutes there, two seconds quicker than Bahrain.

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No other teams yet troubling the top of the standings at the first checkpoint.

Bahrain drop to second at the finish, 12 seconds down on Jayco.

Pello Bilbao launches Santiago Buitrago up the final climb as Bahrain near the end of their TTT.

TotalEnergies second at the finish, almost a minute down on Jayco.

QuickStep, UAE, Movistar, and Astana the latest teams to start.

Jayco almost two minutes quicker than the rest at the finish with a time of 33:46.

NSN did just that with George Bennett, and they beat Lotto by under a second at the line.

With times counting as the first rider crosses the line, there's something of a mini lead out as they set up their GC leader to power up the final slope.

Bahrain eight seconds up on Jayco at the second checkpoint as Lotto beat Picnic by three seconds at the finish.

That's 10 teams of the 22 out on course now.

Caja Rural-Seguros RGA and Alpecin-Premier Tech the next teams to start.

35:37 for Picnic-PostNL at the uphill finish.

Bahrain Victorious are two seconds up on Jayco-AlUla at the first checkpoint.

Jayco-AlUla over a minute quicker than anyone else at the second checkpoint. Their time is the only one under 21 minutes at 20:58.

Tudor are off as Lotto beat Picnic at the second checkpoint by eight seconds.

Jayco-AlUla have set by far the quickest time at the first checkpoint. Their time of 11:03 is 33 seconds up on Lotto-Intermarché.

Cofidis next as Picnic-PostNL pass the second checkpoint with a time of 22:18.

Bahrain Victorious are the next team to start.

NSN bump Picnic-PostNL down to third from three so far, just beating them by a second at the first checkpoint.

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Lotto-Intermarché are 13 seconds quicker at the first checkpoint as TotalEnergies set off.

Picnic-PostNL are through the first time check with a time of 11:49.

Three teams now out on course as NSN start their effort. Jayco-AlUla are up next.

No checkpoint times yet as Picnic-PostNL haven't yet hit the first check.

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Here's what he found.

They're off and next it's NSN.

Lotto-Intermarché are up next. They're just about to head out.

The Dutch team is unlikely to add to their win tally today. They're starting first as the last-placed team in the team classification.

Picnic-PostNL are about to kick things off. They've had a terrible season so far, with just one win, and they lie 29th in the UCI rankings. Team boss Roy Curvers has said that 'Things aren't going smoothly.'

Charmig broke clear of his breakmates in a 10-man move with 12km to go on the 234km stage. – Another successful breakaway as Anthon Charmig wins stage 2

Here's a look back at yesterday's results from stage 2, which saw Anthon Charmig triumph from the break as the escapees triumphed for the second stage in a row.

Here's a look at the map of the stage, which starts and ends in Perreux. There are two time checkpoints along the way after 8km at 15.8km.

You can check out the full list of team start times here at our dedicated Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 2026 stage 3 team time trial start times page

Teams will then head out at four-minute intervals, with the US squad of Alex Baudin, EF Education-EasyPost, the last team to start at 16:29.

Dutch squad Picnic-PostNL will be the first team to get underway.

The action will get under way at 15:05 local time, so in around 20 minutes.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 3 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the 28.4km team time trial in Perreux.