“I can imagine that some teams are protesting about Philipsen today anyway. He didn’t hinder me, but he came from left to right,” Cavendish said on the microphone of British broadcaster “ITV Sport”. But he didn’t want to go into detail: “It’s not up to me to discuss it.”
The situation was also critical Eurosport-Expert Bernhard Eisel im bike club in his analysis of the sprint. “Mark Cavendish pulls to the right and Jasper Philipsen follows, but at the moment Biniam Girmay is also on Mark Cavendish’s rear wheel. There is no contact, but Biniam Girmay has to do it,” explained the Austrian.
As indicated by Cavendish, his and Girmay’s teams wanted to protest the scoring of the Philipsen win. However, the jury rejected this objection.
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The sprint in Bordeaux was not the first for Philipsen on this tour to be viewed critically by opponents. Already on the 3rd stage in Bayonne he hadn’t left Wout van Aert (Jumbo – Visma) a place on the boards, so he had to break off his sprint.
Philipsen then had to wait several minutes before the jury confirmed him as the winner because she wanted to check the TV pictures herself.
Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal – Quick-Step), who sprinted behind the two in Bayonne, criticized there: “You don’t have to close the door like that.”
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