BREAKING: Jasper Philipsen relegated from 2nd on stage 6 of 2024 Tour de France for dangerous sprint
CyclingThursday, 04 July 2024 at 18:11
Jasper Philipsen continues to struggle to replicate the immense success he had at the 2023 Tour de France in 2024. Although he crossed the line in 2nd on stage 6 behind Dylan Groenewegen, the Belgian has now been relegated.
In the opinion of the race jury, Philipsen's sprint was dangerous in the frantic finale in Dijon, with the Alpecin-Deceuninck leader adjudged to have put Wout van Aert's safety at risk as he shut the door on the Team Visma | Lease a Bike superstar. As a result of Philipsen's demotion, the current Green Jersey Biniam Girmay moves up to 2nd place, with Fernando Gaviria up onto the podium of the stage.
You can see the sprint for yourself in the video down below and make up your own mind on the decision!
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- what a pity... he could have easily won the stage. He stopped his attack.
maria2024202422-05-2025 - Poor decision to let Primoz come back. Should have tried to put time into him.
Front24222-05-2025 - You're so wrong ! Froome needs to go away!frieders322-05-2025
- Shows a lot of class for such a young guyCrashjames22-05-2025
- Think how strong the team could be without Froome consuming all that money with nil to show for it. Sad. Selfish on his part tbhCrashjames22-05-2025
- Tom Dumoulin said out loud what many people were already thinking.
santiagobenites21-05-2025 - He’s also taking the place and money of many more deserving (and just as useful) riders (who’d significantly reduce costs). Only thing CF does for IPT is help them stay relevant for discussion because there’s no such thing as bad publicity if you don’t have a reputation to consider.Mistermaumau21-05-2025
- We’ll see. I’m still trying to figure out how GT cycling went from being a climbing defined event to a 3 week event around a couple of short TTs. All the contenders more or less cancel each other climbing and then grow huge (as the media defines the time spans now) gaps when riding on bikes not made for GTs, quite ironic really.Mistermaumau21-05-2025
- When you read this you get the impression they ride without radios or don’t have a common language for communication.Mistermaumau21-05-2025
- That was a very nice ride by Richard Carapaz. His team set him up perfectly for that attack.santiagobenites21-05-2025
He creates his own disasters. Last tour he was very arrogant and now it is payback time
Good. He can be disastrous and a bully.
He cries about his "Disaster" nickname. Dude.. If the shoe fits...
It's about time that he was relegated for riding like that.
Grand tour sprints do very little for me. It's hard to hold a straight line. Passing someone in a sprint means you are not holding a straight line. It's often crashes and carnage.
I'm fine with sprint finishes in one day events like the classics because we usually don't have what we see in grand tour finishes which is mayhem.