Renewi Tour - 20-24 August 2025

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage:

1	Merlier Tim	Soudal Quick-Step	50	50		4:19:28
2	Bittner Pavel	Team Picnic PostNL	30	30		,,
3	Kooij Olav	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	25	18		,,
4	Penhoët Paul	Groupama - FDJ	20	13		,,
5	Govekar Matevž	Bahrain - Victorious	15	10		,,
6	Girmay Biniam	Intermarché - Wanty	10	7		,,
7	Laurance Axel	INEOS Grenadiers	8	4		,,
8	Dehairs Simon	Alpecin - Deceuninck	6	3		,,
9	Gudmestad Tord	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	3	2		,,
10	Albanese Vincenzo	EF Education - EasyPost	1	1		,,

Bittner doing well. Another 10th for Girmay.

 

[jmdirt]

TM! The mosh happens in front/around him and he just sprints through.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Minor adjustments in the GC:

1	1	-	De Lie Arnaud	Lotto	8	18″	15:25:15
2	2	-	van der Poel Mathieu	Alpecin - Deceuninck		17″	0:01
3	3	-	Wellens Tim	UAE Team Emirates - XRG		9″	0:21
4	4	-	Kooij Olav	Team Visma | Lease a Bike		14″	0:46
5	8	▲3	Bittner Pavel	Team Picnic PostNL		12″	0:48
6	5	▼1	Wright Fred	Bahrain - Victorious		2″	0:50
7	6	▼1	Del Grosso Tibor	Alpecin - Deceuninck			0:52
8	7	▼1	Bettiol Alberto	XDS Astana Team			,,
9	20	▲11	De Bondt Dries	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		19″	,,
10	9	▼1	Madouas Valentin	Groupama - FDJ		2″	0:58

 

[tobydawq]

The whole of Belgium erupts with joy as their faveoutire rider wins again!! It's like being in Buenos aires when Argentina win the world cup!

I don't think so.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

I don't think so.

STop being contrarian man!

 

[Pantani_lives]

Today could be a battle for seconds. The "green kilometer", with three times 3-2-1 seconds, comes 22 km before the finish, in the penultimate lap, between the Keizersberg and the Wijnpers.

Wellens should let MvdP and De Lie waste their energy in those sprints, and attack immediately after the third sprint, just when the other two straighten their back.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

We are headed for the conclusion with stage 5:

All the rouleur types with some sprinting capability should have a chance to win the stage. Wouldn't mind De Lie to win the stage and GC, but this will likely pull some teeth doing so.

Race is about to start with live pics in 2.5 hours or so.

 

[Rob5091]

MvdP had a rest day yesterday so I expect he'll have a go today.

 

[Didinho]

Next climb the Chartreuzeberg, one of the most used in the area. Never seen a race on it so I’m curious how easy they’ll make it look. Don’t expect an attack from the peloton but would be nice.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

No attacks on the hill, but Bahrain's pace shedded a handful or so.

 

[Didinho]

Thibau’s training parcours. He’s alert in the front rows.

Bahrein keeps pacing. If they race it hard like this there could be some gaps in the local lap. Otherwise it would be hard to drop De Lie. Hope to see an all out attack on the Wijnpers from Mathieu, last time during the WC he was not in his best form. Perfect hill for him.

 

[Samamba]

No team can really control this. De Lie has only 3 teammates left.

EDIT: he basically only has Berckmoes, wouldn't surprise we if we get a surprise winner because it's going to be 50km of chaos.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so Bettiol with a 50kms solo....perhaps a bit optimistic, but hey lets go.
edit:joined by 3 riders. Looks like a good group.

 

[Tim Cahill]

WC being really climb heavy is good for this and has been for Germany too, a lot of these guys here have nothing left to do this season so are going for it. Canada appears to be stacked this year too, GP Michael Matthew’s is anyone’s game.

 

[Samamba]

De Lie on a bad day?

EDIT: He's there but did not look good.

 

[Didinho]

There you have it. Mathieu on the Wijnpers. Lovely. First test.

De Lie last one of the group.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I think De Lie made it but he's in trouble still

 

[Samamba]

UAE wiill close this down once more fgor UAE, but next round it's complete carnage with also the boni seconds.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Excellent group, hopefully they will go full power. 32km to go.

 

[Samamba]

UAE brings back the peloton.

 

[Tim Cahill]

New selection required, ABW tried

 

[Didinho]

Mathieu needed to make it hard right before the green boni seconds so he can get the lead there on the next Decouxlaan. Afterwards you can let a group go eventually.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Davide ballerini, what a rider!

 

[Samamba]

De Lie too far again. Probably just not he best legs.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

MVDP destroyed everybody in that sprint....