Netcompany-INEOS have confirmed that Oscar Onley will not be able to compete in this summer’s Tour de France after sustaining a “significant” shoulder injury.The 23-year-old Scot crashed on descent in stage six of Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes — formerly Criterium du Dauphine — in France earlier this month, causing him to withdraw with two days of racing remaining.Onley finished fourth in the general classification of last year’s Tour with former team Picnic-PostNL, but it was confirmed on Thursday he will not get the chance to replicate the feat next month.INEOS said in a statement that “further medical investigations” revealed that the crash caused a “significant shoulder injury”.“I’m gutted not to be able to line up for the Tour de France this year,” Onley said on Thursday. “My focus is now on recovering and getting my shoulder in a good place, but I’m really motivated to try and make something out of this season.“I am looking forward to watching the boys racing in France in the coming weeks, especially knowing how hard everyone has worked.”Onley enjoyed a successful Tour last summer with only Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz besting him, and the latter rider the only one to finish faster in the white jersey (youth) classification.He moved to INEOS in a long-term deal to 2027 in December, but has since struggled with consistency. Onley has been unable to finish Paris-Nice, Tour de Romandie and the recent Dauphine. He clocked a fourth-placed finish in the Volta ao Algarve in February and came 12th in the GC of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in March, however.Onley is joined by Vingegaard’s Team Visma-Lease A Bike team-mate Wout Van Aert in succumbing to injuries from this month’s racing, as the Belgian will not be able to race the year’s biggest race due to an elbow infection.The men’s Tour de France will start on July 4 in Barcelona and finish in Paris on July 26.What does this mean for the INEOS squad?Analysis by Jacob WhiteheadOscar Onley’s withdrawal is a huge blow to a Netcompany-INEOS squad which made a major splash to buy the 23-year-old off his Picnic-PostNL contract last winter with Grand Tours like this in mind.After his excellent fourth last season, the hope had been that the Scotsman would make further improvements as he moved to a big-budget team — albeit his season to date had already been heavily disrupted by injury issues, pulling out of both Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie.“It’s hard not to feel that I’ve let a lot of people down,” he said on his Instagram after pulling out the latter with illness.Should he recover in time, there is a possibility that he could lead Netcompany-INEOS’ efforts at the Vuelta a Espana in August.At the Tour, the British-Danish team’s challenge now looks to be led by three options: Kevin Vauquelin, Thymen Arensman, and Carlos Rodriguez.Vauquelin finished seventh at last year’s Tour, with Arensman an impressive fourth at this year’s Giro d’Italia — but both are likely to find more success this year as stage hunters, in part due to strength of their competition, in part due to their own limitations on longer efforts. Rodriguez, meanwhile, has regressed after his excellent fifth place overall three years ago, and it would be a surprise if he was to be higher than the lower reaches of the top ten.Ultimately, Onley’s injuries mean that for all their investment in recent winters, Netcompany-INEOS will once again enter a Tour lacking a true GC contender.