BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - JULY 25: A view of the Pitchfork Music booth during the 2026 Teen Vogue Fest at Duggal Greenhouse on July 25, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for 2026 Teen Vogue Fest)

This handout photo taken and provided on July 26, 2026 by the State of Salzburg shows (from L) Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen, Governor Karoline Edtstadler, Belarusian street protest leader Maria Kolesnikova and opening speaker Maria Kolesnikova, and Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker during the opening of the Salzburg Festival 2026 in Salzburg, Austria. (Photo by FRANZ NEUMAYR / various sources / AFP via Getty Images) / - Austria OUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / LAND SALZBURG " - HANDOUT - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - JULY 25: A view of the Pitchfork Music booth during the 2026 Teen Vogue Fest at Duggal Greenhouse on July 25, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for 2026 Teen Vogue Fest)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - JULY 25: A view of the Pitchfork Music booth during the 2026 Teen Vogue Fest at Duggal Greenhouse on July 25, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for 2026 Teen Vogue Fest)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - JULY 25: A view of the Pitchfork Music booth during the 2026 Teen Vogue Fest at Duggal Greenhouse on July 25, 2026 in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for 2026 Teen Vogue Fest)

This handout photo taken and provided on July 26, 2026 by the State of Salzburg shows Belarusian street protest leader Maria Kolesnikova delivering the opening speech for the Salzburg Festival 2026 in Salzburg, Austria. (Photo by FRANZ NEUMAYR / various sources / AFP via Getty Images) / - Austria OUT / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / LAND SALZBURG " - HANDOUT - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

A worker seeks shade by logistical trucks parked tightly together in the "Zone Technique" of the finish line area of the 10th stage of the 113th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 166,6 km between Aurillac and Le Lioran in the Massif Central, on July 14, 2026. Hours before the Tour de France peloton arrives, an empty field or car park on the edge of town is already being transformed. Beyond the crowds, barriers and television cameras, a temporary settlement rises each day in the race's finish town. In a field, industrial estate or patch of open ground adjacent to the stage's finish line, designated as the "Zone Technique" (Technical Zone), hundreds of workers transform an empty space into a functioning village capable of supporting one of the world's largest sporting events. Then, less than 24 hours later, it is dismantled and moved on. Much of the operation unfolds overnight. In the early hours, trucks stream into the Zone Technique from the previous finish town, parking with military precision as crews unload equipment and connect power supplies before dawn. Many workers live on a shifted timetable, sleeping when they can during the afternoon in camping chairs, hamacs or shaded corners of the compound before another night of logistics begins. For three weeks each July, the Tour carries far more than cyclists across France. Technicians, builders, media crews, podium hosts and hostesses travel with the race, bringing their own power, communications, food services and sanitation infrastructure. Together, they form a population that descends daily on towns and villages of every size, bringing with them their own infrastructure, services and routines. Seen from inside the Zone Technique, the Tour de France is not only a cycling event. It is a nomadic settlement crossing the country, rebuilding itself from scratch every day, wherever the finish line happens to be. (Photo by Jeff PACHOUD / AFP via Getty Images)

A worker naps in a hamac by logistical trucks parked tightly together in the "Zone Technique" of the finish line area of the 10th stage of the 113th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 166,6 km between Aurillac and Le Lioran in the Massif Central, on July 14, 2026. Hours before the Tour de France peloton arrives, an empty field or car park on the edge of town is already being transformed. Beyond the crowds, barriers and television cameras, a temporary settlement rises each day in the race's finish town. In a field, industrial estate or patch of open ground adjacent to the stage's finish line, designated as the "Zone Technique" (Technical Zone), hundreds of workers transform an empty space into a functioning village capable of supporting one of the world's largest sporting events. Then, less than 24 hours later, it is dismantled and moved on. Much of the operation unfolds overnight. In the early hours, trucks stream into the Zone Technique from the previous finish town, parking with military precision as crews unload equipment and connect power supplies before dawn. Many workers live on a shifted timetable, sleeping when they can during the afternoon in camping chairs, hamacs or shaded corners of the compound before another night of logistics begins. For three weeks each July, the Tour carries far more than cyclists across France. Technicians, builders, media crews, podium hosts and hostesses travel with the race, bringing their own power, communications, food services and sanitation infrastructure. Together, they form a population that descends daily on towns and villages of every size, bringing with them their own infrastructure, services and routines. Seen from inside the Zone Technique, the Tour de France is not only a cycling event. It is a nomadic settlement crossing the country, rebuilding itself from scratch every day, wherever the finish line happens to be. (Photo by Jeff PACHOUD / AFP via Getty Images)