No royal sprint in Istanbul: final stage of the Tour of Turkey neutralized

A major setback for the organization of the Tour of Turkey: the eighth and final stage in Istanbul cannot take place today. The race management has decided to neutralize the final stage due to the bad weather conditions.

“Due to the slippery roads, it was decided to neutralize the eighth stage,” the organization reports on its X account. “The peloton will still complete the planned route, but will then only race the local lap once (instead of five times).”

This means that the general classification is already being drawn up, and that Frank van den Broek can call himself the final winner of the 59th Tour of Turkey. The 23-year-old Dutchman seized power last Friday: in the queen stage to Manisa, the rider of DSM-firmenich PostNL scored a double.

Van den Broek remains ahead of the Eritrean Merhawi Kudus and the British Paul Double in the final rankings. For his team DSM-Firmenich PostNL, it is the icing on the cake, after an already very successful week on Turkish soil. The Dutch formation also managed to dominate the sprint stages, with Fabio Jakobsen (one victory) and especially Tobias Lund Andresen (three stage victories).