{"id":641756,"date":"2026-05-01T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:40:13","slug":"hard-not-to-feel-like-ive-let-a-lot-of-people-down-latest-setback-to-2026-season-sees-oscar-onley-leave-tour-de-romandie-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641756\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hard not to feel like I’ve let a lot of people down’ \u2013 latest setback to 2026 season sees Oscar Onley leave Tour de Romandie with illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Onley<\/a>‘s start to his time at Ineos Grenadiers has hit another setback as the Briton was forced out of the Tour de Romandie on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old left the race on stage 1, won by Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a>, after suffering from a stomach bug. He had finished 79th in the opening prologue and took to Instagram to explain his withdrawal from the Swiss race.<\/p>\n

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“Gutted to leave the Tour de Romandie<\/a> after some kind of stomach bug the last few days,” Onley wrote.<\/p>\n

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“Been a tough start to the season to be honest and hard not to feel like I’ve let a lot of people down after all the time and investment from everyone at Ineos Grenadiers.<\/p>\n

“Looking ahead to the next goals and get back amongst it soon.”<\/p>\n

Onley, who finished fourth at last year’s Tour de France, was a headline signing for Ineos over the winter as he joined K\u00e9vin Vauquelin on the incoming list.<\/p>\n

He started his 2026 season brightly at the Volta ao Algarve, finishing fourth overall with a second place on the final day.<\/p>\n

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Last month, he was part of the Ineos squad which raced to team time trial victory at Paris-Nice, though an illness forced him out of the race when he was lying 10th overall after stage 5.<\/p>\n

More recently, he made a comeback at the Volta a Catalunya, finishing 12th in Barcelona, before heading to Romandie this week.<\/p>\n

Onley is next set to compete for the new-look Netcompany-Ineos<\/a> squad at the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes in June as he builds up to another Tour de France bid in July.<\/p>\n

Ineos will now look to Spaniard Carlos Rodr\u00edguez for a result in Romandie. The 25-year-old lies eighth overall, 41 seconds down on race leader Poga\u010dar, heading into Thursday’s second stage.<\/p>\n

Despite Onley’s recent struggles, his Ineos team have enjoyed a positive start to the season, racking up 17 wins to date with eight riders. Another new signing, French champion Dorian Godon<\/a>, leads the way with four victories, including at the Tour de Romandie prologue.<\/p>\n

The team will soon head to the first Grand Tour of the year, the Giro d’Italia, their first race under their new identity, with Egan Bernal<\/a> and Thymen Arensman spearheading the charge in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Onley‘s start to his time at Ineos Grenadiers has hit another setback as the Briton was forced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-641756","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\/641756","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=641756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}