Race jury hands out four yellow cards on stage 3 of the TdF
Amid three separate crashes, including one at the finish and another mid-race incident that knocked sprinter Jasper Philipsen out with a broken collarbone, the UCI commissaires' jury at the 2025 Tour de France is taking a firm hand, dishing out four yellow cards for unsafe behavior.
Bryan Coquard of Cofidis, who bumped Laurenz Rex in the intermediate sprint and then pinballed into Philipsen, taking him down, received one of the cards. Lidl-Trek's Edward Theuns was handed another for irregular behavior in the same sprint. And Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe's Danny van Poppel and XDS-Astana's Davide Ballerini were both carded for actions during the final sprint (Ballerini crashed).
The UCI first trialled the yellow-card system at last year's Tour and made it official for this season. Any rider who gets two yellow cards in the same race is disqualified from that race. Three wild cards in a 3o-day period earn a 14-day suspension and six within a one-year period result in a 30-day suspension. Van Poppel currently has the most yellow cards of any rider, with three in the past year.
