It was a grand total of 42 riders who left the Tour de France prematurely due to various crashes, illness and the Olympics.
Jakob Fuglsang (Astana-Premier Tech) was the final rider to leave the race before the last stage of the race as he felt unwell after the time trial. He decided to look towards the Olympics instead and not risk anything more.
He wasn't the only rider to do that as Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation), Miguel Ángel López (Movistar), Vincenzo Nibali (Trek-Segafredo) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) all leaving early to focus on Tokyo.
Others crashed and saw their dreams crash down with the likes of Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) and so many more leaving the race due to their injuries.
Some did miss the time cut with Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), Bryan Coquard (B&B Hotels) and the first-ever black South African rider to ride the Tour Nic Dlamini (Qhubeka-NextHash) all missing the cut on stage nine to Tignes.
Some riders did crash but carried on with some losing lots of time with Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) being one of those. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) did come down but still managed to take second overall.
Tour de France abandonments
Stage 21
Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana-Premier Tech, DNS due to fever/focus on Olympics
Stage 20
None.
Stage 19
Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation, DNS due to pulling out for Olympic preparation
Miguel Ángel López (Col) Movistar Team, DNS due to pulling out for Olympic preparation
Stage 18
None.
Stage 17
Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Jumbo-Visma, DNF due to illness
Stage 16
Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Trek-Segafredo, DNS due to pulling out for Olympic preparation
Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Nor) Team BikeExchange, DNS after crash on stage one
Stage 15
Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Team Arkéa-Samsic, DNF
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team TotalEnergies, OTL
Stage 14
Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Arkéa-Samsic, DNS
Søren Kragh Andersen (Den) Team DSM, DNS
Stage 13
Simon Yates (GBr) Team BikeExchange, DNF after crash
Lucas Hamilton (Aus) Team BikeExchange, DNF after crash
Roger Kluge (Ger) Lotto-Soudal, DNF
Michael Gogl (Aut) Qhubeka-NextHash, DNS
Stage 12
Peter Sagan (Svk) Bora-Hansgrohe, DNS
Stage 11
Tony Martin (Ger) Team Jumbo-Visma, DNF
Victor Campaenaers (Bel) Team Qhubeka-NextHash, DNF
Tiesj Benoot (Bel) Team DSM, DNF
Clément Russo (Fra) Team Arkéa-Samsic, DNF
Miles Scotson (Aus) Groupama-FDJ, DNF
Tosh Van der Sande (Bel) Lotto-Soudal, DNF
Dan McLay (GBr) Team Arkéa-Samsic, DNF
Luke Rowe (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, OTL
Stage 10
Jonas Koch (Ger) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, DNF
Stage nine
Primož Roglič (Slo) Jumbo-Visma, DNS
Mathieu van der Poel (Ned), DNS
Tim Merlier (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix, DNF
Jasper De Buyst (Bel) Lotto-Soudal, DNF
Nans Peters (Fra) Ag2r Citroën Team, DNF
Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM, OTL
Arnaud Démare (Fra) Groupama-FDJ, OTL
Stefan De Bod (RSA) Astana-Premier Tech, OTL
Loïc Vliegen (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, OTL
Nic Dlamini (RSA) Qhubeka-NextHash, OTL
Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Arkéa-Samsic, OTL
Stage eight
None.
Stage seven
None.
Stage six
None.
Stage five
None.
Stage four
Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto-Soudal, DNS due to stage three crash
Stage three
Robert Gesink (Ned) Jumbo-Visma, due to crash
Jack Haig (Aus) Bahrain-Victorious, due to crash
Stage two
Marc Soler (Esp) Movistar, DNS due to crash on stage one
Stage one
Jasha Sütterlin (Ger) Team DSM, due to crash
Ignatas Konovalovas (Ltu) Groupama-FDJ, due to crash
Cyril Lemoine (Fra) B&B Hotels, due to crash
Tim Bonville-Ginn is one of Cycling Weekly's content writers for the web team responsible for writing stories on racing, tech, updating evergreen pages as well as the weekly email newsletter.
Bonville-Ginn started working in cycling journalism while still at school and university for a voluntary site based on Twitter before also doing slots for Eurosport's online web team and has been on location at the Tour de Yorkshire, Tour of Britain, UCI World Championships and various track events. He then joined the Cycling Weekly team in late February of 2020.
When not writing stories for the site, Bonville-Ginn doesn't really switch off his cycling side as he watches every race that is televised as well as being a rider himself and a regular user of the game Pro Cycling Manager.
He rides a Specialized Tarmac SL4 when out on his local roads back in West Yorkshire as well as in northern Hampshire with the hills and mountains being his preferred terrain.
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