Medical Report and withdrawals Paris - Nice 2025 | Update stage 8 - Brandon McNulty & Tim Merlier among 8 abandons on relentless final day
Cycling
Throughout the 2025 Paris-Nice, there will be many riders to withdraw from the race, for several different reasons. We make a list of all riders who leave the race, as well as list out a few of the main crashes that take place during the race.
Stage 1
On stage 1 there was no rider abandoning the race, but that did not mean that everyone got away unscathed. In an early crash on the day three INEOS Grenadiers riders went down: Joshua Tarling, Magnus Sheffield and Samuel Watson - together with Ryan Gibbons. At a latter part of the day.
Stage 2
Kasper Asgreen fell ill overnight and didn't start the stage. During the day there were plenty crashes. In a first mass crash Arnaud Démare, Julien Bernard, Samuel Leroux and Florian Sénéchal were victims of falls - the latter was forced to abandon.
Later on a crash at the intermediate sprint saw both Luke Durbridge and Gorka Sorarrain abandon with suspected collarbone fractures. The likes of Warren Barguil and Guillaume Martin also went down during the day; whilst Danny van Poppel abandoned during the day.
Stage 3
Florian Senechal of Arkea - B&B Hotels was sent to hospital with a suspected fractured clavicle.
Stage 4
Julien Bernard and Amund Jansen did not take to the start of the stage. Santiago Buitrago punctured and then whilst coming back to the peloton crashed, abandoning the race with a hand injury. Steff Cras and Sam Maisonobe also abandoned during the stage.
Stage 5
The biggest news of the day was Jonas Vingegaard's crash during the day which led to him sustaining injuries in his hand and also face - where it was possible to see a cut up lip. More news will be known soon regarding his health status.
Fabio Jakobsen, Ryan Gibbons, Sylvain Moniquet and Samuel Leroux abandoned during today's stage.
Stage 6
Jonas Vingegaard did not suffer fractures, but the Danish rider did not start the stage as a precaution. He was the only rider to abandon the race today.
Stage 7
Mattias Skjelmose crashed today against road furniture, suffering a blow to the head. The race reports he had pain in the right knee and elbow, but the team has confirmed no fractures.
Juan Sebastián Molano, Max Walscheid, Robin Froidevaux, Cees Bol, Arnaud Démare, Jonas Abrahamsen, Stanislaw Aniolkowski, Aimé de Gendt and Hugo Page did not start the stage.
Tim Nabertman, Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda, Alexander Kristoff and Anthony Turgis also abandoned during the stage.
Stage 8
After both Alberto Dainese and Roel van Sintmaartensdijk failed to take to the startline, a total of eight further riders than abandoned before the end of the final stage.
Brandon McNulty, Tim Merlier, Bert van Lerberghe, Per Strand Hagenes, Max Walker, Adrien Petit, Iuri Leitao and Sebastian Berwick all finished the day as DNF's unable to complete the final stage.
Jonas anandons tomorrow. He was saying farewell to teammates and staff at the finish line
Sad if confirmed but like Tadej, he’ll be happy it didn’t turn out to be a disaster. Curious to know how it happened uphill.
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- Nobody cares about this nonsense.
Front24214-04-2025 - Thanks! Hadn’t heard of that word so would have been hard to search very specifically without your input.Mistermaumau14-04-2025
- Ok, that’s this year’s gold medal for classy comments :-)Mistermaumau14-04-2025
- of course it’s predictable. a dad is proud of his son. nothing else matters, and his dad was a celebrated rider in his own right. maybe if people respected the human side of this story, and these people, we would see fewer bidons thrown. lastly as a dad, I appreciate this. a dad should have be given grief for showing pride and love for his child. we need more dads and examples like Adriemij14-04-2025
- i willfully CHOOSE to believe in your theory about greatness being sharpened and driven by greatness, because in my ideal world that’s how i’d wish it to be. in this case, with mathieu in particular, i think the presence of first wout then tadej absolutely drives and consumes him to some degree. he’s a guy who admittedly gets BORED. and when mathieu gets bored he just goes and does something else. he’s very clear about the fact there are a BUNCH of things he just doesn’t really care about, and i think anyone who follows him has a sense that MVDP is here for a GOOD TIME, not a LONG TIME. my hope is that tadej’s greatness will keep mathieu focused and hungry. very sadly, wout no longer fills that role. he may again and i hope he does, but their career trajectories are going in different directions and have been for a few years now. i will be extremely sad for the truly SPECTACULAR van aert if his line MSR win is the only monument trophy on his mantle. at very least i want ONE roubaix cobblestone sitting next to it. he deserves to tell the story when the grandkids ask “why is there a big rock sitting up there, papa?”OCexile14-04-2025
- Why? He is being too hard on himself. No sane person will blame him if he stopped there and then.
KerisVroom14-04-2025 - You can find a quick explantion by searching for "finish line camera howtown". The camera only captures the vertical line. The photo that we see is a composite of vertical lines.KerisVroom14-04-2025
- Let us not go off the deep end for a start it us not attempted murder. At most common assault. Country dependent. Yes horrible to see and ob not a real fan of the sport or just a VDP hater. This has been going on for years look at Froome in the TDF and other sports such as football. That is soccer to the North Americans. Let the police do there job and hope the offender gets what is coming to him or even her.paultryan200214-04-2025
- Sure but talk about predictable comments, do we really need those (although this time it was more rambling)? Don’t love the media running after him to hear about it each time though. Adrie isn’t even that well informed about his son’s work, can’t they go interview people who have more interesting comments to provide like maybe his mechanic or masseur or nutritionist or driver,oh yes, they’re probably bound by nda’s, which is why no-one tells Adrie anything of importance, didn’t even know his son was sick before Flanders so some of his comments there turned out pointless.Mistermaumau14-04-2025
- I think with Tadej it’s often a case of his mind’s will being stronger than his racing intelligence, he’s lucky to be strong enough to recover from potential mistakes so knows he never has to worry too much about going past his natural limit but under pressure he makes more misjudgment than the average elite pro. I think Mohorič knows that about him too and possibly saved him from himself.Mistermaumau14-04-2025