Medical Report & Withdrawals 2025 Renewi Tour: Update Stage 5 - 15 more riders abandon race on the final day
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As is often the case in a stage race of this intensity, the 2025 Renewi Tour will no doubt see a number of riders forced to abandon due to crashes, illness, and other racing incidents. Keep track of all incidents and withdrawals throughout the race right here!
Stage 1
A crash during the neutral rollout saw British talent Tom Portsmouth abandon very early. Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe's Anton Palzer then also withdrew early on in the day. Late on, a big crash then rocked the peloton, bringing down the likes of Sam Welsford, Marijn van den Berg, Dan McLay and others.
Stage 2
There were 4 DNS overnight as Connor Swift, Mathias Norsgaard, Donavon Grondin and Tobias Foss all left the race. More riders were then caught up in crashes during the day including Abram Stockman, Mathias Vacek, Fred Wright, Mick van Dijke and more.
Stage 3
After the shock news that Ben Turner had been pulled from the race to join INEOS Grenadiers' Vuelta a Espana lineup following a last minute illness in the original selection, no fewer than 20 riders left the race of the course of the day. Among the most notable were the likes of Fabio Jakobsen, Juan Sebastian Molano, Tim Declerq, Bert van Lerberghe, Miles Scotson, Kevin Geniets, Alex Kirsch, Ryan Mullen, Albert Torres and Brent van Moer.
Stage 4
Tudor's Rick Pluimers did not start the stage, whilst the day was rather uneventful outside of it.
Stage 5
Milan Fretin and Adam Toupalik did not start the stage, whilst many abandoned throughout the final day of racing. The following riders did not complete the stage: Gianni Vermeersch, Nolann Mahoudo, Campbell Stewart, Luka Mezgec, Warre Vangheluwe, Sam Welsford, Jonas Geens, Vito Braet, Gerben Kuypers, Lionel Taminiaux, Matevz Govekar, Daniel Skerl and Robert Stannard. Mike Teunissen was also involved in a crash.
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Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He regularly contributes to DartsNews.com and CyclingUpToDate.com, where he covers professional cycling and darts. In cycling, his work includes liveblogs from major races, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España, alongside race reports and analysis. He has also conducted interviews with professional riders.
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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
- Why does cycling have to benefit at the expense of car driving? Almost all the riders I’ve ever encountered drive, in fact, cycling as a pro or competitive sport is hardly possible without driving.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- 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
- I also wanne beat Pogacar in the tour but it aint gonne happen. Jonas unfortunately getting dropped by del toro and seixas several times this TDF and jonas team is very weak and joinas on way down, it aint happening thats clear. its also clear it only happened cause Pogacar was hurt and had a broken wrist that time everytime both full strenght its not close we just have to be honest about it :/miguel07-11-2026
- They do this but literally let cars on courses to run over riders.mij07-11-2026
- Looking at that photo she appears to be several feet from her. I’m not sure how that impeded brands sprint.mij07-11-2026
- I hope you are wrong but I suspect you will be proved correct. It might do something for Scottish tourism - although due to logistics the route skips the most spectacular parts of Scotland. It will bring in short term money no doubt, but will cycling overall in the U,K benifit? I doubt it. Even at £2 a litre the bits love thei cars,Cyclingsbestfan07-11-2026
- Lucky to not get disqualified
leedorney07-11-2026
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