{"id":934735,"date":"2026-10-20T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934735\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:44:10","slug":"ben-oconnor-returns-to-decathlon-cma-cgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934735\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben O&#8217;Connor returns to Decathlon CMA CGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"elk-4f289d52-cc60-11f1-82e0-530b7c2fbd8f\">Grand Tour specialist <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/ben-o-connor\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/ben-o-connor\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-article-category=\"pro-cycling\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/ben-o-connor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben O&#8217;Connor<\/a> will return to Decathlon CMA CGM in 2027 after two years with Jayco AlUla, the French team has announced.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor, 30, rode for Decathlon for four seasons between 2021 and 2024, winning stages of the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and finishing second overall at the Vuelta, before signing for Jayco AlUla in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-4f289d52-cc60-11f1-82e0-530b7c2fbd8f-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Whilst his time at Jayco has been successful, with another Tour de France win added to his palmar\u00e8s, he hasn&#8217;t quite reached his previous GC heights whilst wearing their jersey, and will now return to the team where he had many of his biggest successes.<\/p>\n<p>Latest Videos FromCyclingnews<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">&#8220;Ben O&#8217;Connor is back home!&#8221; the team wrote on social media, announcing his return.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">He has signed a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>            You may like<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">The Australian will link up with the likes of Paul Seixas, the team&#8217;s young but already outstanding GC star, but as one of the most successful Grand Tour riders on their 2027 roster, he will still be able to expect opportunities to ride for himself.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">More to follow\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand Tour specialist Ben O&#8217;Connor will return to Decathlon CMA CGM in 2027 after two years with Jayco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-934735","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\/934735","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=934735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}