Should Jasper Philipsen be DISQUALIFIED for THIS Sprint? Tour de France 2023 Stage 3

Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Tour de France 2023 Stage 3

Credits:
Footage | Amaury Sport Organisation
Photos | Cor Vos (unless stated otherwise)

[CarlosChavez-ijki]

Really Im just glad Wout had the brains to just give up the stage rather than to risk his life. When you are on a sprint, things happen so fast and decisions have to be made in miliseconds. Kudos to Wout for his good reaction.

[JPRidesRoad]

If your goal is to protect the riders, than this should be a DQ every time. He clearly tried to block Wout and like many said, if Wout didn’t let up this could have been disastrous!

[warwickpadmore]

Sketchy. Philipsen clearly deviated from his path. Disaster was averted because Wout chose safety over valor. All tour sprint stages should finish with a minimum 200 metre straight run to the finish line.

[maxt]

It would be good if the UCI applied a rule to themselves:
*The barriers must be perfectly straight in the last 100 metres.*
And with parrallel red lines superimposed onto the overhead shot, any deviation by the winner of 2+ metres is instant disqualification. Very easy to implement all of this.

[briangoossens]

Should relegate whoever thought this was an acceptable finish. And who uses those barriers still in this day and age, embarrassing. Look at the barriers in Flanders classics races.

[katiehirsche]

Things like this shouldn't have to be as bad as Jakobson's coma and awful injuries to lead to a disqualification. Van Aert saved himself a lot of injuries by stopping his sprint, and Phillipsen absolutely should have been DQ'ed whether or not this was intentional. Even if it was a tactic not meant to cause Van Aert harm, it's too dangerous to let continue.

[scottvessey]

Good on WvA for realising the danger and letting it go, Philipsen was in the wrong.

[cheesesandwich]

Guilty. He almost put himself into the barriers. He is not some local yokel racer, he is at the very top of the sport, he knows what he is doing.

[rebeccabertrand]

Philipsen is so lucky he kept that win. If you don't start on the barrier and then almost crash yourself on the barrier you've drifted too far my friend

[lukass]

Here we are one year later and Jasper Philipsen still be pushing van Aert into barricades

[schuey]

If Wout had gone into the fence after the tree, would there have been relegation?

[cyclingartist]

Philipson definitely tried to block him without making it look like a full block. Definite DQ for me. Really sutprised there were no crashes on that finish

[cedricb]

It is certainly a debatable sprint. But for me, only 1 side is at fault. And that's not Jasper or Wout, but the ASO. They should take an example from Flanders Classics in terms of safety. Every year there is still a wrong finish in the Tour. At the finish they could improve a lot. Like they use Boplan barriers in Flemish races, for example, which are much stronger, safer and separate the public from the riders much better. Time to make some quick changes there if you ask me! This certainly sets Flanders Classics apart from the ASO in terms of organisation.

[danmorgan]

Looks to me like Wout's good sense and bike handling skills are all that kept jasper disaster from relegation. Dont really like these bending spriny finishes though.

[Velodan]

By the way did anybody catch Phillipsen commenting afterwards about his left to right deviation. He said this is the Tour, there’s no gifts. Well looks like he got one.

[FlotFyr]

Can't believe the jury spent THAT long and ended up NOT relegating him. Atrocious.

[kcdutt]

Yes, he was moving into WvA's line. In Wout's view it looked like the opening was being closed by JP. It caused him to back off his sprint. If you follow the barriers (not the road), JP keeps getting closer to them, and his final nudge causes Wout to bail. Should have been relegated. It happens, and I love JP, but these are the moves that need to be stopped.

[pesahwear]

Philipsen won the stage at the cost of WVA. But WVA win fan’s hearts. He earned my RESPECT. Viva ❤❤

[ExplorinDoranRBrown]

I feel like Philipson did, I didn’t see how badly he deviated when I watched it live from the first angle, but then the replays showed he swerved over to block Wout a ton.

[ilkerg]

Rules are pretty clear about deviation. JP should have been relegated. Wout avoided a nasty crash by not contesting.