Forged in the rolling hills of the south of Scotland, Onley is most at home when the road gradient makes the legs strain and is based in the high mountains of Andorra. With the big behemoth mountain ranges, the Alps and Pyrenees, still to come there is opportunity to make a bright start to the Tour de France truly memorable.

Tour de France continues on Thursday, July 10, when riders take on Stage 6, a 201.5 km ride from Bayeux to Vire Normandie.

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Tour de France rolls out from Lille in France's north, all eyes will be on defending champion Tadej Pogačar, with two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard Hansen arguably the only rider in the way of total Tadej domination.

The US national champion nestled himself in the breakaway on day six to Vire Normandie, and ended as the day’s runner-up, almost three minutes behind the solo winner Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost).

Onley’s Tour de France success builds on an already impressive 2025 season. Earlier this year, he won a stage at the Tour de Suisse and finished third overall. He also claimed fourth place at the Tour Down Under and fifth at the UAE Tour.

A three-week Grand Tour will always contain natural ebbs and flows, and, for much of Monday’s stage between Valenciennes and Dunkirk, it looked as if the peloton had declared an unofficial rest day, with the riders happy to cruise back towards the coast after a weekend of wind, rain and intensity.

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