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

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[@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.

[@WillPower46]

True, last year he should have been relegated several times. But if you keep getting away with it you are going to keep doing it. Finally they are actually taking some action.

[@slayer6936]

He should have been regulated last year 2 or 3 times. I'm glad they finally did something about J.P.

[@MJLPlaysCODM]

He should be banned from the World Tour. He’s a dirty rider and a danger to everyone around him.

[@maccaberry1041]

Serial offenders should be banned from the sporr for a period of time. Not at bad as a drug chest but not far off. Philipsen needs at least a six month suspension

[@philchevrier]

Completely agree. About effin' time.

[@Bozza36]

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

[@gregc9946]

☝🏻This. Watch Cav, he looks left to be sure he is clear. Now watch Jasper, zero looks, just bangs across and the riders behind go down with Mads Pedersen getting injured.

[@l.d.t.6327]

@@gregc9946to be fair, Jasper only cut off gaviria yesterday (but that alone was dsq worthy). Marijn van den bergh cut off all others without any good reason other than deviating against the rules

[@milazbenecka]

it was my exact thougts yesterday (phillipsen was cutting across in front of gaviria). that was really dangerous and he should have been relegated yesterday.

[@vishaltripathy3620]

cycling should adopt some kind of rule like f1 has underbreaking no sidewise movement if someone is behind you. in cycling they only enforce it in rare circumstances but the rule should be automatic

[@arjandegroot4367]

Philipsen absolutely shows psychotic tendencies when it comes to sprints. You can almost see his brain turn off and his body reacts purely on instinct, not caring about any harm that may come to anyone. It's legit scary.

[@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.

[@malletandchisel5154]

Very true. The only difference was Jasper was saved by the way they laid out the road furniture. Here it’s just him.

[@leetnor4887]

The sprint he won with cav bring number 2 last year also dsq worthy

[@philforde5871]

True.

[@y.a.46]

Same thing in stage 7 last year, forced Binyam to back off by doing the same move in this video

[@JD.007]

💤

[@xy36]

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

[@bertrammar]

The winner of today's stage: Dylan Groenewegen and pushing Jakobsen into barriers (Tour de Pologne 2020)

[@mayalman]

Sagan and second place? Lance and EPO? Bernal and bus bumpers?

[@xy36]

@@mayalman 😂😂

[@THExBLAZEx88]

HATE jasper. A shame because he has so much talent. Too bad he’s a POS

[@lukeh3020]

@@mayalman you mean Sagan the 3x world champion?

[@markdonovan1540]

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.

[@doppelcorn1]

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.

[@BrewsGamesRides]

THIS! Jasper the punk from last year doing it again this year.

[@powderpaul1990]

Haha I watched the same episode this evening and got so angry at Jasper and the entire team. I'm really glad he got punished today.

[@Fr4nkju5tFr4nk]

Yeah, and you can see in the Netflix series that Jasper the Antisocial is totally aware of the fact that he is endangering other riders, he even laughs about it. And I think what makes it even worse is that Alpecin boss Christoph Roodhooft also laughs about this antisocial behaviour and it looks like he promotes arsehole behaviour like this. The whole team is trash with no respect towards the other riders, the sport and cycling culture.

[@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!

[@jacobpedersen8987]

what podcast?

[@jaketheairsofter8268]

"Hva så" med Christian Fuhlendorff.. :)

[@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.

[@danshort10]

This is the problem, last year he was winning and they wouldn’t relegate him. That might be the only time he would learn if they took a win from him

[@durbz6657]

Totally agree. No way they would have relegated him if he won. Ironically, I think he lost because he deviated to block WVA.

[@jaybobd]

@@danshort10 agreed. And last year when he tried to put Wout into the barrier was even more dangerous.

[@_powerrranger]

Sprint relegation is so subjective and it always has been.

[@holgeronmalta1863]

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

[@kaspershaupt]

Jasper the disaster strikes again

[@michprent]

Dirty sprinter 🤮

[@kconnnnn]

The dude has a caveman brain

[@J-cz7yv]

I don’t think it was that bad. Wout was never coming into that space…

[@Stavros_Polymeropoulus]

@@J-cz7yv They were side by side tho, he was already in that space. Disaster does not care

[@andreapiovesan11]

@@J-cz7yv you still need to keep a straight line when sprinting

[@warwickpadmore4644]

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.

[@nicomollet]

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

[@polloi84]

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

[@joesantos7196]

Yes Phil is always lost

[@Phil_Seu_Photography]

And how NBC cut to the studio during the cross wind battle was ridiculous

[@mikkelholm6896]

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

[@jaybobd]

I actually had forgotten about that. His attempt to run a guy off the road to keep him from going off the front.

[@leenverkade]

Yeah, with Pascal Eenkhoorn. That was ridiculous.

[@chrispfitzner520]

at that point I really started to dislike him

[@corinacimbala7791]

That was some Armstrong-level stuff there 🤦‍♀️

[@Ca11mero]

Yeah, but it was a fantastic stage with Campenaerts going full throttle with breakaway wining the stage with seconds to spare. Might be one of the best stages I've seen.

[@OwGosHh]

I hate Jasper Philipsen because of his dirty sprints. He doesn’t deserve to win like that

[@pauljansen1137]

How stupid can you get? He was warned not to do this.....this morning no less!!!! He is lucky not to have been disqualified!!

[@brunoxd151]

I hope he gets disqualified of he does that again

[@Christian56374]

Jeg and look how similar it is to the Fabio Groenewegen crash 😬😬 not really blaming Philipsen should just penalized so that no one would consider doing it again

[@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.

[@miche_amico]

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

[@arjandegroot4367]

Philipsen cares only about winning. If he caused a crash in which 30 riders were hospitalized he would still celebrate the shit out of the victory if he won that sprint.

[@inegleit]

Same in the netflix show. Honestly it kinda makes me worried for the rest of the sprinters having to sprint against him. I think he would make a great politician though.

[@shred3005]

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

[@arjandegroot4367]

There's a reason he was nicknames "Jasper the Disaster" on Netflix.

[@williwacker2774]

He hasn't changed because yesterday was the first time he got penalised.

[@shred3005]

@@williwacker2774 good point

[@rolopolo66]

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

[@spiderelc]

Riders like Kwiato are worth their weight in gold

[@ŠtefanKučera-o7d]

He is shadow only

[@hellohello-yi8yr]

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

[@turtleneck369]

what stage did he just straight up blocked dude and it was not even sprint just did not want him to go ahead of peloton last year that was straight up jerk move beyond arrogance

[@moimeme2499]

@@turtleneck369 stage 18

[@lisaruhm6681]

He did it to Bauhaus once to win too I think.

[@hellohello-yi8yr]

@@lisaruhm6681 he disabled his IG seems like he's been getting killed on social media. Don't get me started on his half asses bs apology lol

[@trentvlak]

Jasper the Cat 5 Disaster makes landfall again. Should have given Wout 2nd.

[@joelecho]

It's a good thing Wout isn't really chasing green jersey points otherwise he'd have been robbed here. Hard to say where he would have finished but absolutely no doubt that sitting up so he doesn't get crashed out costs him a few spots.

[@frankchan5547]

JP's bikes steer sharply to the right in sprint finishes, so mechanics and bike manufacturer need to sort this out 😅

[@pavlenikolic3555]

Jasper this the same thing to van Aert last year. This year, he got the karma for it.

[@vetoland92]

Philipsen is what everyone perceived Nacer Bouhanni to be

[@moimeme2499]

he has better legs though

[@_powerrranger]

​@@moimeme2499NB was good on his day though

[@RonHaskell]

My hope for every sprint stage: Anyone ….. ……. …… …… …… …… Jasper Phillipsen

[@RubenTheCartographer]

Groenewegen showing you actually can learn how to sprint more cleanly, Philipsen on the other hand ... he has such a horrible style with all that pinching off action. I fear Philipsen might need a horrible accident like the one Groenewegen has caused for him to change his ways

[@joelecho]

The worst part of that is that I can remember 3 times where he would have caused one already if not for the rider sitting up. Wout today and in stage 3 last year gets crashed out heavy if he doesn't sit up (or has to dump Jasper on his ass to protect himself) and if I'm not mistaken, Bini had to sit up or be crashed out hard in last year's tour, too. Plus, in a dozen other races he has done it, I'm sure. Those are just 3 that come to mind in the first 5 seconds. I hope that a) commisares actually have the guts to keep relegating him for this stuff, and that b) enough lost results finally teach him his lesson.

[@julen2380]

@@joelecho Didn't Bini actually crash last year? Or am I mixing this up?

[@joelecho]

@@julen2380 I went back and checked, and he may have ACTUALLY crashed in a different stage, but Phillipsen boxed him out exactly like this in the stage where Cav almost won but then slipped his gears over a speed bump.

[@dancooperish]

Great point. Groenewegen (rightfully) copped a 9 month suspension for the crash with Jakobsen. When he came back, he underperformed immensely due to the fear of causing another crash like that. He spent time with Robbie McEwan, helping him get the right mindset back to sprint at the top level again, and has been a much cleaner sprinter the last couple of years.

[@nonamenoname246]

I may not understand the term "pinching off", but I think it would be ok to accelerate past a rider on your right and just at one bike length pinch off the rider you just passed, moving in front of that rider you passed- if that is at the barrier, then that defeats the rider you just passed plus denies your wheel to someone else coming fast behind you. (that is kind of what Cavendish did legally the prior stage when he won his sprint, going so far to his left (granted not using the barrier). Jasper might have felt he had way more speed than Van Aert, but then Jasper should have proved it and not started pinching off Van Aert way before Jasper finished passing him, which I agree should be illegal. Lanterne says Jasper could have just gone straight and beat Van Aert and Dylan with speed,, also if Jasper wanted to legally pinch off riders, why didn't Jasper just move left to pinch off the friendly MVP and use MVP for blocking keeping riders off Jasper's wheel?

[@Nonixification]

Too many dark blue teams, hard to see who is who.

[@CycoWarriorx]

Should’ve relegated him for that sprint weave in Stage 5…

[@marcusb4995]

Something is seriously wrong with the alignment of Philipsen's forks - his bike keeps on puling towards the barriers

[@Sulullta]

Jasper philipsen the strongest disaster of all time cycling history 😂😂😂

[@radumariusgarnita8476]

You haven't seen the Tashkent Terror

[@Sulullta]

@@radumariusgarnita8476 yes for the first time to hear his name 🤣🤣🤣

[@riob6901]

@@radumariusgarnita8476 yes: Dshamolidine Abdushaparov

[@johnandrews3568]

@@radumariusgarnita8476 Came to post this... leaving satisfied. Djamoladine was insane to watch. The only sprinter who could alternately scrape his bar ends on the tarmac while sprinting a zig zag to the line.

[@dmh7575]

Your knowledge and analysis is impeccable. Good work man!

[@ankaslodek3759]

I swear jasper has some beef with wva because the same thing happened on stage 3 last year

[@LLOGICC]

He’s just an asshole, like the rest of the alpecin guys, not to mention the team managers

[@arandombard1197]

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.

[@arjandegroot4367]

It cost him the win AND it cost him 2nd place since he was relegated AND it cost him -13 sprint points for being relegated. Big brain play...

[@KILLTHEREDDITOR]

Except it’s literally mentioned in the video?

[@nonwatcher]

That's literally what Lanterne said at the end.

[@xTTfreakx]

Deviating by 1m to the side over the distance of 150m only costs you 3 millimeters compared to sprinting in a perfectly straight line. People overexaggerate the effect of deviating way too much.

[@arandombard1197]

@@xTTfreakx You don't need to say overexaggerate, exaggerate already means to overstate something.

[@InDubio_ProReo]

Dirty Racing. Wout would have beaten him ...

[@shuycg]

I hope Wout finds a way to pay him back, legally.

[@maximilliandickens96]

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

[@Mgoblagulkablong]

Groenewegen is worse

[@Whistler4u]

Don't be silly. Sprinters need to fight for their place. Seen Cavendish or Groenenwegen do worse stuff.

[@WillPower46]

Same.

[@Gman7953]

​@@Whistler4udirty play should never be an excuse for more dirty play.

[@brunoxd151]

It’s funny how the first season made people have a good imagine of him, and then he threw everything away by being an asshole.

[@paulgilliland2992]

He’s pretty ruthless and deserves relegation.

[@AbudYusuf]

Philipsen did it twice against van Art and Bini but only money fine but am glad they took it seriously this year

[@Flakey101]

He also lost close to 30 sprint points for green. Makes Biniam twice his total now.

[@michaeljosian08]

Jasper is really back to the bottom 🤭 Netflix drama next year

[@Acyclingfan]

Been to Dijon before, nice town. And I'm glad Jasper Disaster got relegated.

[@belbrighton6479]

You do the best explanations. Thank you. 🎉

[@lukewalker1051]

Jasper's blocking cost him. He deserved to lose.

[@peternewton2200]

Well overdue, if this had happened after stage 3 last year it would have sent a much stronger message.

[@gumbypimp65]

He always does that and he is a bully, I don’t feel,sorry for him at all

[@MarkRadcliffe]

Can we all just agree to ONLY call this guy "Jasper the Disaster" for the rest of his career? Great, agreed, then.

[@otowncolby]

You could argue Pedersen went down because of Philipsen yesterday. The tour would be so much better without Philipsen in it.

[@nonamenoname246]

How did Philipsen cause Pederson crash? I could not see but guessed that when Cavendish moved way to the left in front of other riders (legally I assume because he was just far enough (a bike length?) ahead of those other riders on he left side who he had just passed with speed), Cavendish moving left caused a minor havoc on the left side behind Cavendish that then caused Pederson to crash a few bikes back. Or was Philipsen back there behind Cavendish near Pederson causing the crash?

[@otowncolby]

@@nonamenoname246 Watch the last 100 meters in slow motion. Cav does swing left a little, but Jasper swings left all the way from the middle of the right lane to jump on Cav's wheel. I would assume this caused a reaction from the rider who was behind Cav, and immediately Pedersen goes down behind that rider. That's what it looks like to me.

[@Craze_Lifter]

@@otowncolby exactly that's also why mads apparently said in a podcast that he dosen't mind if a certain guy crashed in the peleton lol.

[@MrRobbo303]

Dirty rider can’t stand him

[@great_live_music]

He did the same a year ago. Good to know that the commissaires got some glasses!

[@jaydaniels6172]

About time phillipsen was dealt with. Leave it long enough and I feel a rival team would deal with him themselves.

[@markokitzing4291]

Good analysis, thanks a lot!

[@Waves286]

The question for me is,why wout though?is it that jasper don’t like wout?he has done it to other riders but wout repeatedly.

[@philchevrier]

When the best analyst out there takes a nap during a stage, you know it's REALLY boring.

[@g_y.rtz420]

Just ban this guy clearly hes gonna keep doing ir

[@Craze_Lifter]

i think he inhenrently has been racing dirty since young. You can't break such a habit.

[@johnnyclimax]

Philipsen has been doing this his whole career

[@stevenw11]

Typical. Hes been doing that throughout the whole tour.

[@m3nthos625]

Don´t know much about pro-cycling but this Jasper Philipsen will someday kill somebody in a sprint.

[@DawkinsTools]

I've said it time and time again; Jasper Philipsen is always doing dangerous moves. He should get banned from racing.

[@_cpdchua]

Jasper is no doubt one of the best sprinters, but golly! He's nasty bike rider. He obscures other rider's lines as if he is a Cat 5

[@brysimm404]

It’s about damn time! Jasper deviated worse last year on 2 of his stage wins, but the judges let him slide. I bet Wout said, “Finally!”

[@chrispfitzner520]

Thanks for putting this in the caption! I got really annoyed at the german commentators watching it live for not even mentioning it! Looked so sketchy

[@MrMattie725]

"Lotto did try it seems, now I'm watching the tape", he says whilst watching his own highlights :D

[@THExBLAZEx88]

Lost all respect for Jasper after TDF 2023. Happy to see he’s losing them all! Let’s go BINI!!

[@danchashepherd4415]

Christophe Ladoor 😂. I see what you did there.

[@CanJmpToo]

There has to be a threshold after which dangerous riding becomes counterproductive from a PR point of view. A certain dose of dangerous riding is probably worth the risk, Alpecin Tour '23 is the proof . But too much of it and you might become an hated rider, sponsor might not be keen to associate their image to you. Go ask Moscon, apparently when Lefevre signed him up, he got a call from Specialized

[@WHEREAMI42]

Such a good point , the drift right cost him the win .., even if he wasn’t relegated. lol.

[@SamikBose90]

Deserved disqualification. The sins are accumulated over the time! Good of the comms to finally disqualify him. The green jersey race is wide open!

[@haayou3701]

“History repeats itself again.” if you know what I mean, go watch all the Sprint stages last year from the tour and you will see what I’m talking about.

[@stuarthickson6103]

And Philipsen gets relegated for that but no action taken in stage 3 when Dylan got pushed and blocked by de Lie who had been moving all over the shop and no penalty.

[@martinflo]

Gaviria’s in-saddle sprint here was underlooked imo

[@philipstevenson5166]

track style

[@evrgreen_69]

Great coverage thank you!

[@harmaz5272]

He did the same thing to Biniam last year but they were blind to him.

[@SWu-sl5kz]

While it's a shame that WVA didn't win this stage, I'm thankful he didn't injure himself due to the reckless bad behavior by Philipsen

[@alexflorance1111]

I cannot express enough how much I dislike Jasper- chopping about left right and centre, he’s gunna kill someone one of these days

[@pnield5866]

Great work Dylan & Jayco!

[@1Dss]

How are UAE so amazing in the mountains but always so horrible on the flat. They just can't seem to protect Pog.

[@eggzacute]

Phillipsen at fault and should be relegated BUT a rider is crazy to think they should punch a gap between phillipsen and the barrier. Rules and their enforcement is important but you still need to race to your rivals

[@georgelane6350]

I'd take short odds on Jasper being the first rider suspended under the yellow card system.

[@euroswilliams7303]

Jasper the disaster in full effect. The max verstappen of cycling, fast but dangerous to anyone close to him.

[@angiepaun]

Philipsen nu a castigat niciodata niciun sprint curat !!! Si nu inteleg de ce nu e niciodata descalificat!? Uci?!

[@aimo4thewin619]

Put im out of the Tour, everytime and they do nothing against him. Hope nobody crashes cause of him

[@Masa-ed8ys]

The fact that he did worse than this to Bini last year and never got punished but now the victim is different and so the decision, different standards for different athletes, shocking!

[@OFBCyclingWorld]

I had a siesta too but back in Australia. They should have relegated Jasper P today and a few times last year as well IMHO. He keeps doing this with impunity. WTF.

[@mounirharbi7152]

fucking philipsen no sports man ship he is about to put vant aert in the middle of barriers and finishes his carrier wtf where is the rulers

[@ebsalonga]

Philipsen shouldve just went straight as the sweep to the side is a longer line. What a waste of momentum.

[@simonlimmer8948]

Sadly it is always the same with Philipsen. It is just what he does. And he also did it in his first 3 wins in the last tour.

[@oliverwarren1074]

Would be super nice to have some commentary on where Cav was. Heard he was cut off around 300m to go but couldn't see how that happened or why he wasn't in the mix for the sprint.

[@christianrivero446]

He gifted the win and gifted the points.

[@mgrant6607]

The guy who finished 2d was relegated but the guy who won deserved a life-time ban.

[@MalcolmTroon]

The only difference was the outcome

[@maxb148]

The thing is Philipsen probably could have won if he didn't cut across Wout because he had to travel further to do so and also not he relegated in the process

[@fiddleronthebike]

finally… tbh, as he did this countless times and got a warning that very morning they could have disqualified him. Btw, Cavendish also has caused too many crashes with his behavior without being penalized (stage 5, Bauhaus relegated and Cavendish not… what???) - there are clear rules and the commissairs should judge all the same

[@brittle1]

Why was I not surprised

[@TenPetrVrana]

Just disqual him, or fine him, this is too much

[@shanekelley3554]

Jasper knows he’s not better than Wout so he needs to play dirty

[@Hakucho64]

"Christophe the Door", love it mate!

[@0nkelfarmor]

DISQUALIFY PHILIPSEN!

[@theinkedcyclist7366]

Jasper Disaster........

[@shaddapforever]

The problem is not Jasper, it is the jury who are never consequent in their actions. What I want to see now is the jury doing the same thing during the next sprint. I will make the prediction now that they won't again, although the should.

[@AlexYem-l1h]

If he won this stage, i dont think so to be relegated .

[@maxjbg]

What if he won? Would they have relegated him then? By the Standards of last year not. But I am not sure.