{"id":757531,"date":"2026-06-24T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:39:10","slug":"ineoss-suffer-another-setback-ahead-of-2026-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/757531\/","title":{"rendered":"INEOS&#8217;s suffer another setback ahead of 2026 Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The virus that sidelined some riders during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes-2026-standings-1-minute-separates-the-top-10-before-the-mountains\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes<\/a> last week has also claimed victims in the week following the stage race. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/kevin-vauquelin\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">K\u00e9vin Vauquelin<\/a>, riding for Netcompany INEOS, is suffering from it so severely that he will have to sit out this coming Sunday\u2019s French championship.Vauquelin finished an impressive seventh in last year\u2019s Tour de France and made the switch this winter from the smaller Ark\u00e9a team to Netcompany INEOS. Riding for his new team, he finished fourth in Paris-Nice, fifth in the Tour of the Algarve, and tenth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/i-ended-up-feeling-empty-kevin-vauquelin-crashes-out-of-the-basque-country-gc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour of the Basque Country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more below the photo. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/oscar-onley-6a3a7f55990ec.jpg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"Oscar Onley\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Oscar Onley was forced to withdraw from the Tour Auvergne Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes after dislocating his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Vauquelin Struck by a Virus and a BacteriaNow Vauquelin himself has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ7Eo-8txHG\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">taken to social media<\/a> to report that he, too, did not emerge from the race unscathed. \u201cUnfortunately, I won\u2019t be able to compete in the French championships. A virus and a bacterial infection, which I contracted during the Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes Tour, are further weakening me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team and I have decided to skip the championships to prepare for the Tour de France,&#8221; said the Frenchman. &#8220;It was a difficult decision, but health comes first.&#8221; Defending champion Dorian Godon now has only Axel Laurance left as a support rider.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The virus that sidelined some riders during the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes last week has also claimed victims in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,59639,166776,82,262636],"class_list":["post-757531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-ineos-grenadiers","tag-kevin-vauquelin","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757531","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=757531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}