{"id":473684,"date":"2026-03-13T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:03:08","slug":"oscar-onley-pulls-out-of-paris-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473684\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Onley pulls out of Paris-Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ineos Grenadiers stage racing specialist Oscar Onley<\/a> has been forced to quit Paris-Nice<\/a> with illness.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old was a non-starter on stage 6 of the race on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

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Onley was lying 10th overall at the time, 11:23 down on Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) after being beset by crashes and mechanical issues on stage 4’s ultra-tough stage, when mass pile-ups and atrocious weather conditions wreaked havoc in the peloton.<\/p>\n

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A star last-minute signing for the British WorldTour squad in 2026, Onley had been part of the Ineos Grenadiers winning line-up for the stage 3 team time trial, only for his GC bid to collapse 24 hours later.<\/p>\n

Onley’s teammate K\u00e9vin Vauquelin continues in the overall battle, lying fourth overall at 6:09 down on Vingegaard.<\/p>\n

With difficult weather conditions, all-out racing and a large number of crashes, Paris-Nice has been beset by a very high number of abandons this year, with 15 riders pulling out on stage 4 alone, amongst them race leader Juan Ayuso (Lidl-Trek), who fell heavily with other riders on a high-speed descent.<\/p>\n

Three other riders were listed as DNS (did not start) on stage 6’s hilly leg from Barbentane to Apt alongside Onley: Julien Bernard (Lidl-Trek), Spanish National Champion Iv\u00e1n Romeo (Movistar) – also ill – and Rick Pluimers (Tudor).<\/p>\n

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Signed in December from Picnic PostNL as a top stage racing contender, in a bid to bolster Ineos’ Grand Tour GC goals following his breakthrough fourth place in the Tour de France last year, Onley had a very promising start to his debut season with the team, finishing fourth in the Volta ao Algarve.<\/p>\n

His next event is scheduled to be the Volta a Catalunya in late March, but following his Paris-Nice abandon, no new date has yet been put on his return to racing or if he will now switch to a different program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ineos Grenadiers stage racing specialist Oscar Onley has been forced to quit Paris-Nice with illness. The 23-year-old was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473684","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\/473684","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=473684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}