Renewi Tour 2024 28th August - 1st September

[Rob5091]

20 th Renewi tour (ex - BincBank etc) 5 stages, including 3 sprints, 1 Classic & 1 ITT . Everyone who's a sprinter is here - Philipsen (& leadout man MvdP), Merlier, Girmay, Kooij, Milan, De Lie, Démare etc etc

Startlist at https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/renewi-tour/2024/startlist

Roadbook with all the info at
https://indd.adobe.com/view/publica...s/pdf/K2024_1313_Roadbook_A4_voor_website.pdf

Stage 1 today - Riemst to Bilzen 163.6 km start 11.35 CET, TV from 13.45 CET.

Edit - add- Time bonuses Green KM - 3 sprints in the Green KM at the begining, middle and end of the Green KM. Bonus seconds of 3,2 & 1 seconds to the respective first, second and third guys across the line. at each sprint so a maximum of 9 bonus seconds can be had by one guy.

There is also a Super8 Combativity Award, but it'll take someone with a Phd to describe how that works!

 

[Rob5091]

Other stages - Thursday is the 15.4 km long ITT , (Ganna should be a fav for this)

Friday is a flat sprint stage 185.5 km

Saturday is another flat sprint stage 178.5 km

and to round things off on Sunday, is a Classic type stage, 202.7 km

 

[Rob5091]

Map of stage 1 -

 

[Devil's Elbow]

How ironic that a waste recycling company is sponsoring a race that belongs on the scrapheap. 'Tour of Benelux', my ***.

 

[Brullnux]

The good news is that we get three days of pure sprinting showdown, with all the best sprinters in the world.

The bad news is we get three days of pure sprinting showdown.

 

[KZD]

Best sprinters field of the entire season. Too bad that the race got shortened to just 5 days as now there is only one hard stage.

Several candidates to win GC but no major favourite I would say. Still, I would expect Wellens, De Lie and Van der Poel to be in the mix maybe Milan as well, though the last stage will probably be too hard for him and for Ganna.

 

[Samamba]

At least they made the Geraardsbergen stage significantly harder.

 

[Rob5091]

Stage 1 - 5 guys up the road with less then 2 minutes on a peloton filled to the brim with sprinters.

GC wise, whoever wins the ITT should hold a lead until stage 5. It's the 10th anniversary of Wellen's first (of three) GC wins, so a favourite.

 

[Samamba]

Ganna looks horrendous

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Ganna looks horrendous

Is Küng scheduled for the ECC ITT? If so, who is going to beat him? I mean, someone IS going to beat him, right?

 

[Rob5091]

Hoole abandoned after the crash - hope he gets well soon.

 

[Didinho]

Golden kilometer!

 

[tobydawq]

Is Küng scheduled for the ECC ITT? If so, who is going to beat him? I mean, someone IS going to beat him, right?

Well, he has won that before.

 

[Samamba]

Is Küng scheduled for the ECC ITT? If so, who is going to beat him? I mean, someone IS going to beat him, right?

I don't know, it's 3 days after end of Vuelta. On the other hand. Kung's form is really good right now.

 

[Rob5091]

Ganna getting dropped on a little lump does not look good.

 

[Rob5091]

16 km to go - Peloton compacto - speed increases.

 

[Samamba]

This won't be the last big crash this week.

 

[Rob5091]

Big crash - ouch. Kooij down.

 

[Rob5091]

This won't be the last big crash this week.

With all these sprinters here, that sounds quite possible.

 

[Brullnux]

Ganna looks horrendous

How has this happened? The Olympics were less than a month ago and sure, he didn't come away with a gold, but he won a silver and bronze. Did the pursuit training just kill him or something?

 

[Didinho]

Milan wins. Took Mathieu’s leadout, well done. Philipsen did some efforts in the last 10km. Could’ve been a better battle.

Merlier and Groenewegen crashed after the line.

 

[Brullnux]

Nice job from Milan, very very long sprint. Aggressive to get in VdP's wheel

 

[Ilmaestro99]

JONNY MILAN - BEASTMODE

Smoking the best sprinters in the world from 250m out

 

[Coffeeplanter]

What the hell was that? Merlier sprints, stops, sprints again, collides with Groenewegens front wheel.

 

[Didinho]

Merlier’s jump results in the crash. Thought he was save for 4th and suddenly Dylan came.