Arnaud Demare and Mark Cavendish relegated after stage 12 sprint at 2024 Tour de France

Stage 12 of the 2024 Tour de France saw Biniam Girmay make it a hat-trick of stage wins this Grand Tour. Behind the Eritrean however, things were a little more complicated with a messy sprint bringing plenty for the race jury to look at post-stage.

On the line, Arnaud Demare managed to cross the line in 3rd, his best result of this Tour de France. In Wout van Aert's post-stage interview however, the Belgian mentioned his frustration at Demare's sprint with it potentially costing him a stage win. "I'm disappointed. I was trapped between Arnaud Démare and the fences," van Aert reflected. “I should look back and see what happened. But anyway, I had to relaunch myself and still came close to winning. So yeah, if I hadn’t had to keep my legs still, I would have had a good chance.”

Now, both Demare and Mark Cavendish has felt the repercussions of the race jury and been relegated from their original positions for dangerous sprinting, being pushed instead to the back of the pack. As a result, the new top 10 result of the stage looks like this;