Jasper Philipsen Nearly Hits Wout van Aert into Barriers | Tour de France 2024 Stage 6

Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Tour de France 2024 Stage 6.

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

[santiagobenites]

I'm glad that the commissaires finally made the decision to relegate Philipsen for his dangerous riding, although I'm surprised that they haven't done it earlier, considering that this is not his first offence.

[Bozza]

Even in stage 5, Philipsen cut across to Cav's wheel so aggressively, he almost put himself into the barriers.

[milazbenecka]

Finally, but with one year overdue... Look back at finish of TdF 23 stage 3. Same situation Philipsen vs Wout, but no relegation that time. His dirty play in the sprints has been overlooked for way too long. Even yesterday nearly took down Gaviria.

[markdonovan]

We all know it's racing, but people's lives and careers are at stake. It's bad enough with muppets stepping out into the road and taking videos for their mums, or selfie idiots, but the one rider that really must get a grip is Jasper The Disaster. He's either got a screw loose or he's deliberately putting others at risk to gain his own advantage at any cost. Competition should be competitive, but there should also be due respect for fellow competitors, Jasper Philipsen clearly doesn't care about it - so maybe a few more relegations, fines and bans will make him heed the advice that I'm sure many have given him.

[doppelcorn]

I just watched Episode Three of the Netflix TdF series, where he did the same thing on 2 different occasions (one time also involving WVA). So I guess it was about time.

[sebkure]

This type of riding by Jasper is exactly why Mads Pedersen mentioned in a podcast that "some people you don't care about if they crash" when on the topic of Jasper. Glad to see some action being taken finally!

[xy]

Philipsen and riding people into barriers. Name a more iconic duo... I'll wait

[holgeronmalta]

"Phillispen ... more focuses on trying to close van Aert .... force of habit", I loved that understated humor (and dig) in that.

[polloi]

These highlights are 1, 000x better coverage than US viewers get on Peacock

[epincion]

Thanks LR. WVA must be pissed - he had a great chance of a win and Jasper knew it so pushed him into the boards. Losing out of being first due to the effort of pushing WVA in the barriers was sweet in itself (as LR notes) but relegation to 107th was finally seeing some justice for what seems to be a regular Jasper tactic.

[jaybobd]

Jasper's put more people into barriers than Cavendish has TdF stage wins. Had he won you know they wouldn't have had the guts to relegate him.

[mikkelholm]

Anyone remember Jasper the Disaster trying to stop breakaways last year? :D

[hellohello-yiyr]

He did this in all his stage wins last year as well. Remember he cut off wout and he also cut off bini last year as well. Why can't he be like mads pederson when bini won this year he didn't shove him into barriers if it was philipsen he 100% would have pushed him

[arandombard]

Something I see people aren't talking about enough is that Jasper chose to take the 'longer' line by cutting off WVA. That adds distance to his sprint and then he ultimately lost by a few inches. He actually lost because of it, which just makes the loss even more deserved. Perfect ending.

[nicomollet]

Finally Jasper was relegated on this stage, but still killed chances of WVA again.

[shred]

Philipsen has plenty of history doing this kind of stuff. He’s been called out as dangerous before and he hasn’t changed

[miche_amico]

It's hilarious that Jasper was upset at the finish. Talk about lack of awareness.

[maximilliandickens]

I really liked Jasper after the first ‘Bike to Survive’ or whatever it was. But turns out he’s just the absolute worst.

[warwickpadmore]

Effin Philipsen has a very nasty habit of trying to snuff out opponents. He did the same thing to Van Aert in Stage #3 of the 2023 TDF. In that occasion, Van Aert aborted rather than end up in the morgue or in ICU. Happy Philipsen was relegated.

[rolopolo]

UCI need to pull Philipsen into line. It’s long overdue.