Jasper Philipsen sped to his third stage win of the 2023 Tour de France alongside the river Garonne in Bordeaux on Friday afternoon, though his stage 7 victory wasn't without controversy.
The Belgian and his Alpecin-Deceuninck team had a tense wait to see if Philipsen would be relegated after a sinuous finale on stage 3, and were in trouble three days ago on stage 4 in Nogaro as Danny van Poppel accused him of inadvertently causing Fabio Jakobsen's late crash on the motor racing circuit. His lead-out man Mathieu van der Poel was later demoted for barging Biniam Girmay out of the way, too.
