Medical Report and withdrawals Paris - Nice 2025 | Update stage 8 - Brandon McNulty & Tim Merlier among 8 abandons on relentless final day
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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.
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- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
- How can you use a photo post incident to judge the incident itself (which is not hard to find if you’re prepared to invest the same amount of time in searching as writing that comment? It’s harsh but technically right even though this or worse is not always sanctioned in every race. The two things that went against MS (who unfortunately for her would still have won without making her mistake) are that it was not a bunch sprint where there could have been an overlooked incident or mitigating circumstances explaining a deviation. Everything was focused on just those 2, Schreiber was riding beautifully balanced which made her sudden deviation look unnatural stroke as if it could have been in some part intentional whilst she was slowly drifting ever closer towards the barrier to a point that would have reached obstruction level. In her defence, it might have been the realisation she was heading towards that that made her react suddenly and caused the deviation involuntarily. In any case, congratulations to her for the ride of her life, in people’s minds she will be credited for it.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- Good boy Obviously doesn’t need that much help dealing with pressure, as some have suggested. Wiser (and humbler) than many far further along their careers. About offering him the moon, recently someone came up with an explanation of the downfall of a football great (either referring to Maradona or Portuguese Ronaldo) saying it was kind of normal after coming back from the moon, except that others, including some who actually did go to the moon like Armstrong (Neil in case anyone is too switched off to realise) didn’t go through any of the same motions after coming back. A lot of how you deal with situations has less to do with the situation than with your character.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- I think that they're not really used to dealing with this type of incident in a cyclocross race, and the situation has been magnified because it was a race for a championship title. It's very unfortunate that the race had to be decided in this way.
santiagobenites07-11-2026 - Seriously why do they keep doing stupid things like this. Its one thing to relegate when the placings are minor, when the action is blatant. But when it is ambiguous, why dont they at least take advice from some higher up to avoid embarrassing themselves. This is similar to the Halland goal when his teammate was clearly offside and interfered in play and VAR gave them the goal. if you dont have evidence you cannot convict. Even for doping they have these rulesabstractengineer07-11-2026
- So all those who went to watch, including all from abroad, waled there, spent nothing? Most places hosting events of the sort manage to make it worthwhile. If it was so obviously fruitless, don’t you think by now they’d have run out of hosting candidates? Why do you think the Tour can command such high prices for departure and arrival locations? If it didn’t bring anything locally they’d have to pay to get authorisation to use cities.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- What a travesty ! That little deviation did nothing to impede Brand !frieders307-11-2026
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