Kevin Vauquelin and Oscar Onley moved up the General Classification to seventh and eighth overall on a transitional second stage at the Tour Auvergne – Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes.<\/p>\n
The race’s longest stage since 2003 played out across 234.3 undulating kilometres on a day which fell into the hands of the breakaway.<\/p>\n
With a lot of attention on Wednesday’s upcoming team time trial, the scene was set for the break to contest stage honours – with Anthon Charmig (UnoX-Mobility) taking the solo win into Le Puy-en-Velay.<\/p>\n
Netcompany INEOS worked well to both protect their leaders and conserve energy where possible ahead of key tests to come.<\/p>\n
Vauquelin and Onley both moved up two places on the GC, but remained 32 seconds behind overnight race leader Alex Baudin (EF Education – Easypost).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Vauquelin and Oscar Onley moved up the General Classification to seventh and eighth overall on a transitional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-628427","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\/628427","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=628427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}