Tour de France 2023: Belgian Jasper Philipsen in the fourth stage
This Tour de France 2023 stage started in Amorbieta and finished in Bayonne. The stage was 193km long, flat type, and intended for final sprint riders.
The winner was the Belgian Jasper Philipson, the first candidate, while the second place came to the German cyclist Phil Bauhaus from the Bahrain team. While Australian Caleb Ewan of Belgium's Lotto-Dstny team finished third
Philipsen achieved this victory after a wonderful lead out from his colleague, the Dutch cyclist Matthew, who decided to focus on this stage instead of the second stage, which he had some luck winning, but he decided to focus on this stage for the sake of the team, and he had what he wanted
Jasper Philipsen's victory was controversial, and the Tour's Organizing Committee did not decide his victory until after a period of time from the end of the stage, and the reason for that was that Philipsen, while accelerating in the last few meters, entered the path of his fellow cyclist Wout van Aert from the Jumbo Visma team, which caused him to stop accelerating after contact or friction. With Philipsen and some barriers or audiences, he said
There was a difference of opinion about Philipsen's eligibility for this victory
But according to the common opinion of most analysts and spectators, it was that Philipsen deserved to win and that Wout van Aert was nothing more than a victim of the poor organization of the stage.
Because according to the rules of the International Federation, which stipulate that the last meters in the sprint stage must be completely level, but as we saw in this stage, there was a slight right turn 200 meters before the end of the stage
Philipsen's eligibility to win was by following his own path and did not interfere with Wout van Aert's path. As you can see in this picture, the barriers entered the Vodvanrat course, not Philipsen's.
Wout van Aert decided to stop accelerating and chose safety rather than risk a win that could put him out of the race entirely.
Philipsen achieved its third victory in the Tour de France, thus becoming the third Belgian cyclist in the twenty-first century to win two consecutive editions of the Tour de France after Tomponen and Wout van Aert
After Philipsen's victory, the Albasin Felix team joins the UAE team and thus becomes the second team to win one or more stages in the last eight major rafts.
As for the jerseys, they are still the same, in the possession of the British cyclist Adam Yates of the UAE team. As for the green team, it is still in the possession of the French cyclist Victor Lafaye of the Covidis team, and the polka dot is still in the possession of the American cyclist Nelson Paulis of the American Decision First team. As for the white shirt, it is still in the possession of the Slovenian cyclist Bogchar, who singled out Exactly with the record number for wearing the white shirt for the best young cyclist in the Tour of France, in addition to the large rafts of all kinds.
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