{"id":461282,"date":"2026-02-08T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:13:09","slug":"i-dont-enjoy-climbing-but-i-asked-the-ds-if-i-could-go-really-deep-ben-turner-surprises-himself-as-ineos-climb-into-gc-picture-in-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461282\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t enjoy climbing, but I asked the DS if I could go really deep\u201d \u2013 Ben Turner surprises himself as INEOS climb into GC picture in Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cI had good legs, which was nice, but I don\u2019t really enjoy the climbing to be honest,\u201d Turner said afterwards in conversation with Cycling Pro Net<\/a>. \u201cIt was a bit over my level, I think, but I tried to do my best and see what was possible with the shape. It was a good day, so I was quite impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than riding defensively, Turner had already made his intentions clear to the team before the decisive climbs began. \u201cI asked the DS yesterday if I could go really deep and see what was possible,\u201d he explained. \u201cThey went at quite a hard pace on the big climb out the back. There were only 20 guys over the top, so I thought maybe the legs were quite good.\u201d<\/p>\n

That first selection proved pivotal. As the race fractured under the pressure applied by Red Bull in support of Remco Evenepoel, Turner found himself repeatedly responding rather than simply surviving.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a bit unsure what would happen on the second-to-last one, but the legs responded quite well,\u201d he said. \u201cI tried to ride like it was for a result and see what the legs could do, but it was just really, really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

A quieter INEOS consolidation<\/p>\n

While the headlines centred on Evenepoel\u2019s solo victory and takeover of the race lead, INEOS quietly emerged from the day with two riders firmly embedded in the top ten. Sheffield crossed the line sixth, Turner eighth, both having ridden their own tempo deep into the final climb.<\/p>\n

Turner was keen to stress the collective performance, particularly coming a day after Andrew August\u2019s breakthrough stage win. \u201cAlso, Magnus was up there as well and was looking really good,\u201d he said. \u201cI think we rode really well today after the win yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

With one stage remaining, INEOS are no longer chasing scraps or hiding in the wheels. Thanks largely to Turner\u2019s willingness to test himself in unfamiliar terrain, they now head into the final day with two credible GC positions already secured, built not on expectation, but on intent.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cI had good legs, which was nice, but I don\u2019t really enjoy the climbing to be honest,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[35173,49,48,635,59639,82,185056],"class_list":["post-461282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ben-turner","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-ineos-grenadiers","tag-sports","tag-volta-a-comunitat-valenciana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}