{"id":806238,"date":"2026-07-17T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806238\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:18:10","slug":"frits-biesterbos-leaves-tour-de-france-ahead-of-stage-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806238\/","title":{"rendered":"Frits Biesterbos leaves Tour de France ahead of Stage 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#section-1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New to the professional peloton in 2026, Frits Biesterbos impressed in the opening half of the season and earned a spot on Team Picnic PostNL\u2019s Tour de France squad, making his dream a reality in Barcelona. Across twelve days of racing, he played an important role in the sprint successes. Frits will conclude his debut Tour ahead of stage 13, with his focus now shifting to the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Biesterbos said: \u201cGetting the call to ride the Tour was something I\u2019d dreamed of, so I embraced the opportunity with both hands. It\u2019s been an incredible experience and I\u2019m proud of the role I could play in our sprint results. I\u2019ve learned an enormous amount over these twelve days, and I\u2019ll take all of that into my next goals this season. I\u2019m determined to be back here one day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team Picnic PostNL coach Matt Winston added: \u201cFrits has done a really good job in his first Tour de France. He\u2019s not only been strong on the bike but he also brings a good atmosphere and positive energy to the group, so we\u2019ll miss having him here. After yesterday\u2019s stage we sat down together and agreed that this was the right moment, looking at his overall development and with a clear view to the future. Frits is an important part of our plans for the coming years and he\u2019s been a real value to the team on the biggest stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New to the professional peloton in 2026, Frits Biesterbos impressed in the opening half of the season and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-806238","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\/806238","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=806238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}