LIVE - Renewi Tour Stage 2 - Massive high-speed CRASH tears through the peloton
CyclingThursday, 20 August 2026 at 16:07
Good morning and welcome to the Renewi Tour liveblog. The second stage of the race takes to the road, linking Blankenberge and Ardooie over a distance of 173 km. It’s another day for the pure sprinters, where the lead-outs and team trains will battle for every inch of the road in the final kilometres of the stage. So join us over the next few hours as we bring you all the excitement and developments from the race live and up to the minute.
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Carlos Silva is a writer for CiclismoAtual.com and CyclingUpToDate.com, where he contributes race reports, interviews, analysis pieces, and live coverage of the international cycling calendar. Holding a degree in Sports from the Jean Piaget Institute, he combines academic knowledge of performance, training, and competition with hands-on journalism experience in professional cycling.
Throughout his career, Carlos has conducted interviews with leading figures in the sport, including Alberto Contador, Joaquim Rodríguez, Óscar Pereiro, João Almeida, Isaac del Toro, Derek Gee, John Degenkolb and Geraint Thomas. These conversations reflect direct engagement with Grand Tour winners, Classics specialists, and emerging talents.
He has provided on-site coverage at major events ranging from the Vuelta a España to the Tour de France, alongside stage races such as Vuelta a Andalucía, Volta ao Algarve, Volta a Portugal and O Gran Camiño. Covering the mythical climbs of the Giro d'Italia remains one of his professional ambitions.
Carlos is responsible for liveblog coverage of all major WorldTour races and beyond, including the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España. His reporting integrates verified data from ProCyclingStats to ensure statistical accuracy, contextual depth, and analytical precision.
A lifelong cycling enthusiast, he approaches storytelling across written, photographic, and video formats with a focus on credibility, tactical insight, and informed race interpretation.
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- eah all this is true and valid. Visma seem to be a total chaos for several reasons youve highlighted and not to remember from old visma anymore. Their trend is even worse and main reason im very sceptical on them going forward next year.miguel20-08-2026
- Yeah all this is true and valid. Visma seem to be a total chaos for several reasons youve highlighted and not to remember from old visma anymore. Their trend is even worse and main reason im very sceptical on them going forward next year.miguel20-08-2026
- I still like remembering the Giro 2024. The Italians loved Pogi, his style of racing and attacking. On the last stage we could see hundreds of Italians holding Slovenian flags or signs saying: "Grazie Tadej... grazie Pogi..." or "Tadej, ti amiamo"-meaning "Tadej we love you." ... I saw nothing like that this year when Jonas won. He's just a boring cyclist, that's a fact. Yes, he's good, one of the best stage racers...but boring... Yawn yawn... Now the Spaniards are going crazy over Pogi. The Spanish media exploded: "TADEJ POGAČAR, THE BEST CYCLIST IN THE WORLD IS COMING TO SPAIN"... Pogi vs everyone will be interesting. Cyclists fighting for second and third place will be interesting. Austin Powers would say "Yeah baby"!!!PogiSloFans20-08-2026
- This is just stupid, Organizers have the maximum power to make change, to make a course safe. Not UCI. UCI is literally powerless before ASO and RCS. The UCI is a stupid org but that dont mean it is completely responsible for all that is wrong. Also the team pushing the rider and the rider themselves putting themselves at risk are also prominent reasons. UCI are at fault for not investigating the proper causes and not making the rules. Here's what is common Finlay Tarling (2026): Descent/Traffic André Drege (2024): Descent Muriel Furrer (2024): Descent Gino Mäder (2023): Descent Tijl De Decker (2023): Traffic Davide Rebellin (2022): Traffic Antoine Demoitié (2016): Traffic Wouter Weylandt (2011):Descent Fabio Casartelli (1995): Descent there have been plenty of serious/near death experiences as well probably 10 times more- Jonas, Remco, Froome, Bernalabstractengineer20-08-2026
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- In the Visma team they have problems with roster and staff departures. The team lost high-profile riders and crucial coaching figures, while head of racing Grischa Niermann surprisingly showed them his middle finger and jumped ship to a rival team. Reports and my insider information point to internal strain caused by the team's uncompromising, highly rigid training and operational methods that have become "old fashioned." That's the reason Niermann left. With elite cycling budgets skyrocketing toward €60 million, the team has been actively hunting for a major co-title sponsor to maintain its competitive edge, but it ain't working too well. Let's remember that Jonas criticised Visma during the Tour??? Now why would he do that while the Tour was still in progress and he is their No.1 rider??? There is something very wrong in Visma!!!PogiSloFans20-08-2026
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