Stage 2
Alex Kirsch did not start the stage whilst Luc Wirtgem and Rasmus Sojberg Pedersen withdrew during the day as results of other crashes. Alessandro Verre, Juan Guillermo Martinez, Bob Jungels and Bauke Mollema are all riders that have also gone down today.
Stage 3The INEOS Grenadiers’ Bob Jungels was a DNS at the start of the day, before five further riders abandoned over the course of the stage. Most notable of the riders out is Mathias Vacek, who was caught up in a nasty crash alongside Maillot Jaune Paul Lapeira and Polish national champion Rafal Majka, a crash that actually caused the stage to be neutralised. Elsewhere, Lars Boven, Donavan Grondin, Owain Doull and Filippo Baroncini all also abandoned.Stage 4
After Maxim van Gils was a DNS for Red Bull – BORA – hansgrohe overnight, two riders abandoned on the stage, with both Irish sprinter Sam Bennett and Intermarche’s Kamiel Bonneu leaving the race.
Stage 5
A whole host of riders were DNS before stage 5, seven in total. Most notable among them were Picnic PostNL’s young British climber Max Poole, Team Jayco AlUla’s Koen Bouwman and Cofidis’ Polish sprint star Stanislaw Aniolkowski, with Mikkel Honore, Pepijn Reinderink, Cedric Beullens and Maikel Zijlaard completing the list. On the stage itself, Florian Senechal then further diminished the peloton’s numbers with an abandon.
Stage 6
A total of a whole 17 riders have left the race today. Missing at the startline were notable names such as Michal Kwiatkowski and Magnus Sheffield who abandoned the race ill; Niklas Behrens, Paul Ourselin, Finn Fisher-Black, Tim van Dijke, Ethan Hayter, Andrea Raccagni, Casper van Uden and Pawel Bernas. And amongst those who did not finish the stage later on were Bauke Mollema, Casper Pedersen, Michal Pomorski, Gerben Thijssen, Remi Cavagna, Piet Allegaert and Dan McLay.