The Tour de France is underway, and with it has come the return of the jury report, the day by day replace on punishments doled out to riders and groups all through the race.
Every day, the UCI commissaires on the race forged their eye over the goings on within the peloton because the world’s largest race makes its manner throughout France. The eagle-eyed jury, made up of seven UCI-appointed officers from Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, and New Zealand, can spot a sticky bottle or a rider illegally littering from a mile off.
Extra harmful infractions are additionally penalised, with commissaires now in a position to implement biking’s new yellow card system. Two yellow playing cards inside 30 days end in a rider being disqualified from the race and receiving a seven-day suspension, whereas three yellow playing cards inside the identical 30-day interval result in a 14-day ban.
German Classics racer Nils Politt (UAE Crew Emirates-XRG) and French sprinter Paul Penhoët (Groupama-FDJ) are each using underneath risk of the previous, the pair each having picked up a yellow card on June 9 on the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Stage 3 noticed the primary yellow playing cards of the Tour handed out, with Bryan Coquard and Edwards Theuns penalised for irregular sprinting on the day’s intermediate dash, resulting in the crash which took Jasper Philipsen out of the race. Davide Ballerini and Danny van Poppel have been handed yellow playing cards for irregular sprinting on the end, with their motion inflicting a multi-rider crash.
Stage 4 was far much less eventful, with solely a single superb being handed to Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) for “disposing of waste with out precaution”.
After a trio of days with no penalties, there have been three riders and one sports activities director hit with fines on stage 8, together with winner Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) and it was than all quiet once more on stage 9.
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Learn on for the complete checklist of yellow playing cards, fines, and penalties on the 2025 Tour de France, in addition to an inventory of infractions that would see a rider handed a yellow card.
Yellow playing cards, fines, and penalties on the 2025 Tour
Stage 1
- Elmar Reinders (Jayco-AlUla) – 200CHF superb – sticky bottle
Stage 3
- Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) – yellow card, 500CHF superb, -13 inexperienced jersey factors – irregular dash at intermediate dash
- Edward Theuns (Lidl-Trek) – yellow card, 500CHF superb, -13 inexperienced jersey factors deduction – irregular dash at intermediate dash
- Davide Ballerini (XDS-Astana) – yellow card, 500CHF superb, -13 inexperienced jersey factors – irregular dash at end
- Danny van Poppel (Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) – yellow card, 500CHF superb, -13 inexperienced jersey factors, relegation to thirty sixth – irregular dash at end
- Luca Mezgec (Jayco-AlUla) – 500CHF superb, -25 inexperienced jersey factors – careless disposal of waste
Stage 4
- Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) – 500CHF superb, -25 UCI factors – Rider disposing of waste with out precaution
Stage 8
- Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) – 500CHF superb, -10 inexperienced jersey factors deduction, -10 seconds total – obstruction to a rider
- Paul Penhoët (Groupama-FDJ) – 200CHF superb, -20 seconds total classification, -10 inexperienced jersey factors – sheltering behind a automotive
- Arnaud de Lie (Lotto) – 200CHF superb – urinating in public through the race
- Groupama-FDJ DS Benoit Vaugrenard – 500CHF superb – sheltering behind a automotive
Infringements that can lead to yellow playing cards
- 3.4 – Rider taking off necessary helmet through the race.
- 4.2.1 – Hand sling between teammates.
- 4.2.2 – Hand sling between riders from completely different groups.
- 4.3 – Pushing off towards automotive, motorbike, rider; rider pushing one other rider.
- 4.6 – Rider holding onto car or mechanical intervention from a transferring car.
- 4.7 – Sheltering behind or making the most of the slipstream of a car.
- 4.9 – Follower leaning out of a car or holding gear outdoors a car.
- 4.10 – Unauthorised feeding (4.10.1 – 4.10.2 – 4.10.3 – 4.10.4 – 4.10.5 – 4.10.6)
- 4.11 – Irregular feeding (“sticky bottle” or feeding outdoors feed zone, and so forth.).
- 4.12 – Non-compliance with the article 2.3.025 by a crew assistant throughout feeding
- 5.1 – Irregular dash, deviation from the chosen line that obstructs or endangers one other rider.
- 5.2 – Rider decelerating throughout a dash and endangering different riders
- 6.1 – Obstruction by a rider or car so as to forestall or delay the motion of one other rider or car
- 6.3 – Breach of rules or tips regarding car actions through the race or failure to adjust to the directions of commissaires and/or the organisation
- 6.4 – Interviewing a rider through the race.
- 6.5 – Interviewing a sport director over the last 10 kilometres of a race or conducting the interview from a automotive somewhat than a bike.
- 7.1 – Deviation from the race route constituting a bonus, trying to be positioned with out having coated the whole race route.
- 7.6 – Use of sidewalks/pavements, paths or cycle lanes that don’t kind a part of the race route.
- 7.7 – Passing by means of a degree crossing that’s closed or within the strategy of closing (lights flashing and/or audible warnings).
- 7.9 – Utilizing a non-compliant place or level of assist on the bicycle that represents a hazard to the rider or rivals.
- 8.1 – Failing to respect the directions of the organiser or commissaires.
- 8.2.1 – Assault, intimidation, insults, threats, improper conduct (together with pulling the jersey or saddle of one other rider, blow with the helmet, knee, elbow, shoulder, foot or hand, and so forth.), or behaviour that’s indecent or that endangers others (between riders)
- 8.2.2 – Assault, intimidation, insults, threats, improper conduct (together with pulling the jersey or saddle of one other rider, blow with the helmet, knee, elbow, shoulder, foot or hand, and so forth.), or behaviour that’s indecent or that endangers others (directed at another particular person, together with spectators).
- 8.3 – Rider or crew employees disposing of waste or different objects outdoors of litter zones. (tailored additionally to one-day occasions since April 1)
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