Medical Report and withdrawals Tour de Romandie 2024 | Update stage 5: 17 riders abandon race on final rainy day
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In this article, you will find frequent updates on some of the events that happen throughout the 2024 Tour de Romandie. In the medical report we gather the list of riders that abandon the race as well as information from the race's official press releases.
Prologue
Nothing to note.
Stage 1
Astana have lost it's leader today. Alexey Lutsenko is the main rider to have abandoned the race this afternoon; he and teammate Igor Chzhan have abandoned the race due to illness. Mattia Cattaneo and Jan Stöckli of Team Corratec - Vini Fantini have also abandoned the race.
Stage 2
After losing two riders the previous day, Astana lost another rider before the start of the stage in Santiago Umba with infectious bronchial asthma. During the day, four riders abandoned and the cold conditions influenced this. Andrey Amador, Maikel Zijlaard, Marco Murgano and Matteo Constant all failed to reach the finale of the stage. It is not known the reason behind any of these DNF's.
Stage 3
Despite being a time-trial, it did not come without victims on the day. Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team's Xabier Mikel Azparren suffered a crash and abandoned the race. Furthermore, Arkéa - B&B Hotels' Alan Riou was a DNS on the day.
Stage 4
BORA - hansgrohe's Patrick Gamper did not start the day. But afterwards, the mountains and cold conditions saw six riders abandon: Xandro Meurisse and Stan van Tricht (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Jordan Labrosse (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Daniil Marukhin (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Rune Herregodts (Intermarché-Wanty) and Sylvain Moniquet (Lotto Dstny). Only Marukhin's withdraw was justified, as a respiratory viral infection - just as three other teammates did, in the previous days.
Stage 5
After a tough and fast day in the mountains and with the finish in sight, the cold and rainy final day saw several riders never making it to the finish. 8 did not start: Koen Bouwman; Eddie Dunbar; Damiano Caruso; Cyril Barthe; Gijs Leemreize; Pavel Bittner; Emils Liepins and Niklas Markl. 9 others did not finish the stage: Brandon McNulty; Senne Leysin; Jesús David Peña; Luke Plapp; Nolann Mahoudo; Sean Flynn; Thomas de Gendt; Matteo Amella and Antoine Debons.
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- Im not copmaring him to jonas palmares...but current level of power and again like you even pointed out 19sec difference and on other ocassions del toro dropping him. Its evidently their close and based on both their different trajectory its self explanatory...where we are next year.And Del Toro didnt struggle if getting a podium in his first TDF at 22 year old is struggling you sure dont know how to be objective haha. But have a good weekend this is so dumb to discuss as its not even a discussin in reality as facts speak for themselves of what were actually speaking of - and self explanatory.miguel13-11-2026
- fingers crossed. my son has a poster of wout and mathieu battling each other at the beach at ostend up in his room. would be great to see them again there!Ketterechts13-11-2026
- This Giro is very strange in it's circular route. If you were to have stage starting in Trieste and ending atop Monte Zoncolan (end stage 20) you'd get a stage only 145 km long
Rafionain-Glas13-11-2026 - When Thomas gets the bullet from INEOS he can get a job as a comedian.
Senna196013-11-2026 - Right on. The more the merrier.Occam13-11-2026
- Remember, Del Toro struggled in this Tour. He is great, no doubt about that, but comparing him to a four time gt winner is absurd at this point. He has the potential. We'll have to see how he develops.awp13-11-2026
- what did Jonas gift and to whom? just curious, haven’t heard about this.mij13-11-2026
- You don't gift grand tours as it has come to light that Jonas has come to regret doing such.
Front24213-11-2026 - Exactly you said it urslf - he outclimbed del toro by 19 sec. 19SEC and you say hes alot better than del toro still lol? And can also do the same where del toro did that to jonas even and del toro dauphine numbers better than jonas all year so why this hard whats the issue its super easy stuff - del toro wasnt that before. Then factor in both their trajectory the last years and the answer is self explonatory like i said. Nothing against jonas like many do but the typing is no the wall and so stupidly easy as its so self explanatory now. Have a good daymiguel13-11-2026
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