{"id":14393,"date":"2025-07-22T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14393\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:48:09","slug":"people-dont-believe-that-but-that-is-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14393\/","title":{"rendered":"People don\u2019t believe that, but that is the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Onley<\/a> is a rider that has displayed very strong climbing abilities throughout the past few years but nothing would’ve prepared him to enter the final week of the Tour de France<\/a> in fourth place, well within range of the final podium and the youth classification. This came as a surprise to himself and even Team Picnic PostNL<\/a>.\u201cI\u2019ve said from day one that we weren\u2019t here to fight for the GC,\u201d team DS Matt Winston<\/a> shared with Road.CC<\/a>. \u201cWe were going to do a relaxed GC, which basically means we\u2019re not going to throw time away. But if we were to lose time, we\u2019d accept that. But as it happened, Oscar had done a fantastic job. He\u2019s been in the race every single day, and now we\u2019re in the position we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Onley finished in the Top5 of the Tour Down Under and UAE Tour; 9th at Itzulia Basque Country and finished inside the podium of the Tour de Suisse – beating Jo\u00e3o Almeida in a mountain stage as well. Hence, he had proved to have strong form into the Tour, however few would’ve expected him to be more than a Top10 contender at best. The 22-year old Scottish climber had not previously raced a Grand Tour fighting for the overall classification and it wasn’t the exact plan coming into this Grand Boucle either.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOscar\u2019s level has shown he\u2019s been able to be in the GC and hold those positions. But we also know Oscar is a super-talented rider, and he\u2019s worked really closely with our team since coming out of the junior ranks with our Expert group”. Onley showed tremendous legs on the hilly stages of the first week and has been steadily climbing the overall classification throughout the second week, now ending up in fourth place, 1:25 minutes away from Florian Lipowitz who holds both the third place and white jersey.<\/p>\n

But it doesn’t come as a shock, taking into consideration what he’s done as a youngster. \u201cHe\u2019s shown glimpses of that in the past. In the Tour of Croatia a few years ago, he was sprinting against Jonas Vingegaard. So, it\u2019s not surprising that he\u2019s made those steps now”.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t come here to do a GC, I keep saying it. I think people don\u2019t believe that, but that is the truth, we came here for stage results,” Winston adds. “We\u2019ll keep focusing on the day results with the other guys, there\u2019s a few potential breakaway days, sprint days maybe. And when it comes to the GC days with Oscar we\u2019ll race as hard as we can, and see where we end up in Paris”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Onley is a rider that has displayed very strong climbing abilities throughout the past few years but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}