It\u2019s been a tough Tour de France for Jasper Philipsen and the rollercoaster of emotions continued Wednesday with the sprinter taking third place into Nevers, being relegated and handed a yellow card, and then finally being given the all-clear over his finishing sprint.<\/p>\n
The Belgian sprinter crossed the line third behind S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold (Uno-X Mobility) and Olav Kooij (Decathlon CMA CGM) but was then dumped down to 119th place, last in the peloton.<\/p>\n
There was confusion over what exactly he was relegated for, with his Alpecin-Premier Tech manager Christoph Roodhooft speaking to the race jury to find out why they faulted him.<\/p>\n
Penalty reversals are rare, but that is exactly what happened today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s only right,\u201d Roodhooft said, according to Wielerflits<\/em>. \u201cIt was a good meeting. We looked at everything together. Those people had a lot more images than what we had seen. And in the end, they consulted again and the decision was reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n He was asked what the issue was in the sprint and was non-specific in his answer.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to explain, because there are no images of that. I can make a story out of it, but I think it was two maneuvers. Yes\u2026 I can\u2019t say anything more.\u201d<\/p>\n The person who can say something more is Philipsen himself.<\/p>\n Footage from the stage shows him making contact with the Picnic Post NL rider Pavel Bittner, and this appears to be what the problem was.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course it was a hectic sprint, like it is always in the Tour de France,\u201d the 2023 green jersey winner said. \u201cThere was one moment when I had contact with a rider from Picnic but of course it was because the speed dropped a lot in the final 400 meters.<\/p>\n \u201cThe riders behind came with a lot more speed from the back. Of course I don\u2019t have eyes in my back and I don\u2019t see who is behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n Relegation aside, being given a yellow card further increased the stakes of the meeting between the jury and Roodhooft.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a disappointment that they relegated me, but in the end it will also mean that I didn\u2019t do anything on purpose or anything wrong if they reverse the decision,\u201d Philipsen said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I am happy that they reconsidered the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n Philipsen has won 10 Tour stages in his career, with his four victories in the 2023 Tour also sealing him the green jersey.<\/p>\n He took three stages the following season but lost out to Biniam Girmay in the points classification. Last year\u2019s race was a disappointment as his victory on stage 1 was followed up two days later by a big crash which took him out of the Tour.<\/p>\n This time around things haven\u2019t gone to plan, with fourth on stage 8 and fifth place on both stages 5 and 7 being as close as he got to the win prior to Wednesday\u2019s stage.<\/p>\n He\u2019s now inched closer again to a victory, taking third into Nevers. Losing that result would have been a big blow and would have put his green jersey campaign under further pressure.<\/p>\n Thankfully he remains in the hunt, although he has a lot of ground to make up on Mads Pedersen.<\/p>\n Philipsen is third in the points classification, 62 points adrift of the Lidl-Trek rider.<\/p>\n Had his relegation stuck he would have been 40 points further back again, giving him an even more difficult task.<\/p>\n Thursday is expected to be another sprint finish and he will try to seize the moment and finally get to spray the champagne.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/chaos-philipsen-relegated-then-cleared\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Z8C_6986.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated July 15, 2026 01:17PM It\u2019s been a tough Tour de France for Jasper Philipsen and the rollercoaster of emotions continued Wednesday with the sprinter taking third place into Nevers, being relegated and handed a yellow card, and then finally being given the all-clear over his finishing sprint. The Belgian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2045221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2045221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2018I don\u2019t see who is behind me\u2019<\/h2>\n
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Green jersey still within reach, but pressure is on<\/h2>\n
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