{"id":44178,"date":"2025-08-04T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/44178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:23:03","slug":"a-bit-of-inspiration-for-this-week-fifth-place-for-niamh-fisher-black-in-tour-de-france-femmes-motivates-brother-finn-to-aim-high-in-tour-de-pologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/44178\/","title":{"rendered":"‘A bit of inspiration for this week’ – Fifth place for Niamh Fisher-Black in Tour de France Femmes motivates brother Finn to aim high in Tour de Pologne"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s nearly 1,500 kilometres from western Poland to the northern Alps, and while Finn Fisher-Black<\/a> was getting his share of the limelight at the Tour de Pologne<\/a> team presentation on Sunday evening, his thoughts were a lot further west at the time.<\/p>\n

Fisher-Black’s sister Niamh was a key player in the last stage of the Tour de France Femmes<\/a>, with her fourth place in the Alps late on Sunday her cement a fine fifth place overall. And as Finn told Cyclingnews at the stage 1 start of the Tour de Pologne on Monday, the Tour de France Femme’s last evening stage was certainly keeping him glued to his mobile phone.<\/p>\n

“I had it on my phone while we were here yesterday doing the team presentation, I was watching. I was super happy for Niamh, and it’s a bit of inspiration for this week, too. I think it could be a good one,” Fisher-Black said.<\/p>\n

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“[Tour de] Pologne is a race I’ve had marked down at the start of the year as one I want to target. So I’m here with my best legs and we’ll give it a shot.”<\/p>\n

Fisher-Black knows how tough and tight a challenge at Tour de Polonge can be. As soon as it hits the key GC stages, the narrow and technical roads through the hills of southern Poland often make for a tricky, fraught event, with bonus seconds often being crucial.<\/p>\n

In 2023, when Fisher-Black was riding with UAE Team Emirates for then-teammate Jo\u00e3o Almeida, it was “full gas every day. But that’s the kind of racing I like.<\/p>\n

“With Almeida, two years ago, the win came down to the last stage” – with Almeida suffering a narrow one-second loss after he missed out on a bonus sprint on the flat, final run-in to Krakow. “So that’s something I won’t be underestimating and I’ll be getting in there for the bonus sprints for sure.”<\/p>\n

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Fourth in the Katowice time trial in Pologne in 2023 and fifth on the lumpy Bielsko-Biala stage the day afterwards, Fisher-Black, the current New Zealand TT National Champion, says he believes the final race against the clock next Sunday could once again prove critical.<\/p>\n

“I think it definitely could come down to the time trial, especially with the field that’s here, everyone is very close, and it could be a matter of seconds on the last day,” Fisher Black told Cyclingnews.<\/p>\n

“So we’ll see what happens if it comes down to the last TT. But I’ve done a bit of work on my time trialling recently, so hopefully I’ll be prepared if it comes to that.”<\/p>\n

If his sister Niamh’s recent success in the Tour de France Femmes will certainly help boost his motivation this week, Fisher-Black is hoping to have a chance to make an impact in a Grand Tour, in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in late August.<\/p>\n

His participation has yet to be definitively confirmed, though, so while he’s waiting for further news on that account, Pologne will hopefully give the 23-year-old New Zealander another chance to shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s nearly 1,500 kilometres from western Poland to the northern Alps, and while Finn Fisher-Black was getting his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-44178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}