The 2025 Tour de France is effectively underway, and so too are the abandons, as we enter the ultimate week of the race.
Each rider who begins the Tour desires to complete, however with 21 phases and the fixed threat of crashes and sickness, rider abandons are inevitable in Grand Excursions, and riders will progressively drop out over the three weeks in France.
Throughout 14 phases up to now, 17 riders have dropped out, leaving 167 riders within the peloton.
On stage 14, probably the most dramatic abandon up to now happened as Remco Evenepoel climbed off his bike on the ascent of Col du Tourmalet. He wasn’t the one rider who fell sufferer to the stage’s savages, alongside some rumoured sickness throughout the peloton.
Steff Cras (TotalEnergies) left early within the stage, citing sickness, whereas Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) suffered an harm from a collision with highway furnishings. He spent a while on the medic’s automobile earlier than formally abandoning outdoors 100km remaining.
On Sunday, João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), the top climber in support of race leader Tadej Pogačar, abandoned the race midway by stage 9, while two extra riders failed to start out stage 10.
Different early withdrawals had been Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) and Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck).
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Riders might abandon mid-stage after a crash or sickness, climbing right into a automobile or being taken away by ambulance as a substitute of ending the stage. Others will pull out in a single day and never begin a brand new stage within the morning.
Riders can be taken out of the race by the organisation, both by ending outdoors of the time restrict and even being disqualified as a consequence of ‘DNF’ means ‘didn’t end’, ‘DNS’ means ‘didn’t begin’, ‘OTL’ means ‘outdoors time restrict’ and ‘DSQ’ means ‘disqualified’.
Final 12 months, a complete of 35 riders deserted the Tour de France, with 131 riders making it to Good.
Right here is the listing all of the riders who’ve pulled out of this 12 months’s race up to now, which we are going to preserve up to date all through the Tour.
2025 Tour de France abandons
Stage 1
- Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) – DNF after crash, head harm, concussion protocol
- Stefan Bissegger (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) – DNF after crash, head harm, concussion protocol
Stage 3
- Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) – DNF after crash at intermediate dash, shoulder harm
Stage 5
- Jasper De Buyst (Lotto) – DNS after falling in poor health with a fever
- Émilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies) – DNS as a consequence of fractured shoulder blade in crash on stage 3
Stage 7
- Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious) – DNF, crash
- Mattia Cattaneo (Soudal-QuickStep) – DNF, accidents from stage 4 crash
Stage 8
- Eddie Dunbar (Jayco-AlUla) – DNS, wrist ache following stage 7 crash
Stage 9
- João Almeida (UAE Staff Emirates-XRG) – DNF, ache from accidents sustained stage 7 crash
Stage 10
- Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Wanty) – DNS after crash on stage 9
- Marijn van den Berg (EF Training-EasyPost) – DNS as a consequence of persistent accidents from crash on stage 1
- Søren Wærenskjold (Uno-X Mobility) – DNF, fighting influence of stage 9 crash
Stage 12
- Cees Bol (XDS-Astana) – DNS, sickness
Stage 14
- Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) – DNS, fractured finger
- Steff Cras (TotalEnergies) – DNF, sickness
- Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) – DNF, harm sustained from highway furnishings crash
- Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Fast-Step) – DNF
Stage 15
- Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto) – DNS
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