{"id":759548,"date":"2026-06-25T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:53:09","slug":"huge-blow-for-ineos-oscar-onley-ruled-out-of-tour-de-france-as-shoulder-injury-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759548\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge blow for INEOS – Oscar Onley ruled out of Tour de France as shoulder injury confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Netcompany INEOS<\/a> have been dealt a major blow ahead of the Tour de France<\/a> as Oscar Onley<\/a> has been officially ruled out of the grand tour. The British rider suffered a shoulder injury after a crash at the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes earlier this month.The british team’s general classification leader suffered a major crash<\/a> on stage six of the WorldTour race, with reports emerging that he injured his shoulder as he fell off his bike and over the edge of a ravine – with a tree saving him from a much more serious fall.A team statement<\/a> said: “Following Oscar Onley’s crash on stage six of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, further medical investigations have confirmed a significant shoulder injury.”<\/p>\n

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“Unfortunately, this means Oscar will be unable to compete in this year\u2019s Tour de France.He has already begun rehabilitation and is making encouraging progress. We wish Oscar a full and speedy recovery.”<\/p>\n

Onley gutted to miss Tour de France<\/p>\n

Onley admitted he was “gutted” to be missing the Grand Boucle, but knows that the focus is now on recovery going forward as the race comes just a little too soon.<\/p>\n

Onley said: “I\u2019m gutted not to be able to line up for the Tour de France this year. My focus is now on recovering and getting my shoulder in a good place, but I\u2019m really motivated to try and make something out of this season.<\/p>\n

“I am looking forward to watching the boys racing in France in the coming weeks, especially knowing how hard everyone has worked.”<\/p>\n

Geraint Thomas and INEOS management have been dealt the headache amid news that Kevin Vauquelin too faces a race against time to the Barcelona Grand Depart on July 4th. The Frenchman fell ill with a virus on the final weekend of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, throwing another spanner in the works.<\/p>\n

Vauquelin won’t ride the French National Championships this weekend, saying: “A virus and a bacterial infection, which I contracted during the Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes Tour, are further weakening me. The team and I have decided to skip the championships to prepare for the Tour de France. It was a difficult decision, but health comes first.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netcompany INEOS have been dealt a major blow ahead of the Tour de France as Oscar Onley has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,323764,57600,85,2845],"class_list":["post-759548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-netcompany-ineos","tag-oscar-onley","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759548","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=759548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}