'We'll give it everything tomorrow' – Oscar Onley just 22 seconds off Tour de France podium and white jersey with one mountain stage to come

Above the clouds on the Col de la Loze, the Scot stayed with the best to inch closer to third place

Oscar Onley on stage 18 of the Tour de France
(Image credit: Getty Images)

The Col de la Loze was not a nice place to be on Thursday afternoon. Not because it is 26.5km long at 6.4%, or even because it was being raced as stage 18 of the Tour de France, but because it was cold, wet and miserable.

There was freezing rain, hail and low cloud to boot, not that the men dressed as lobsters were put off by the conditions, but it was noticeably horrid.

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Adam Becket
News editor

Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling, he's happy. Before joining CW in 2021 he spent two years writing for Procycling. He's usually out and about on the roads of Bristol and its surrounds.

Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to riding bikes.

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