{"id":90773,"date":"2025-08-25T03:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90773\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:06:11","slug":"tadej-pogacar-blasts-jury-decision-to-strip-van-poppel-of-deutschland-tour-win-these-relegations-are-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90773\/","title":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar Blasts Jury Decision to Strip Van Poppel of Deutschland Tour Win: \u2018These Relegations Are Jokes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poga\u010dar lets fly after race jury strips Dutch champion Danny Van Poppel of stage victory <\/p>\n

\"Danny<\/p>\n

Danny van Poppel (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was relegated after deviating inside the final 100 meters (Photo: Christian Kaspar-Bartke\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Updated August 23, 2025 02:36PM<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not taking part in the race, but that hasn\u2019t stopped Tadej Poga\u010dar<\/a> from blasting the decision to relegate a rider at the end of stage 3 of the Deutschland Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Danny van Poppel<\/a> (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) finished well clear at the end of Saturday\u2019s stage of the race, outsprinting S\u00f8ren W\u00e6renskjold (Uno-X Mobility) and Emilien Jeanni\u00e8re (Team TotalEnergies) plus the rest of the reduced main bunch to the line.<\/p>\n

However the Dutch champion was relegated to last in his group by the race jury, which ruled he deviated from a straight line.<\/p>\n

W\u00e6renskjold said that he agreed. \u201cI\u2019ve seen the footage. I think it is the right decision,\u201d he said in the post race interview. \u201cBut it\u2019s not the way I want to win. He was the strongest one but he didn\u2019t keep the line. If he just kept the line he would have won either way.\u201d<\/p>\n

However Poga\u010dar was clearly unimpressed with the jury\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clear winner of today\u2019s stage,\u201d he wrote on social media, posting a photo of Van Poppel crossing the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese relegations are absolute jokes and not correct, job done poorly\u2026 like so many times this year,\u201d he stated. \u201cCongrats, Danny van Poppel, you won.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PARISPoga\u010dar recently won his fourth Tour (Photo: Yoan Valat \u2013 Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He elaborated on his statement, suggesting others were also at fault.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong. If they are relegating riders here, they can relegate 4 to 5 riders,\u201d he stated. \u201cLook [at] all the pictures. Peace out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar is currently taking a break from competition after his Tour de France win. He will return to action in the upcoming Grand Prix Cycliste de Qu\u00e9bec and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al events.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poga\u010dar lets fly after race jury strips Dutch champion Danny Van Poppel of stage victory Danny van Poppel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,45284,101,45285,45286,45287,45288,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-90773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-danny-van-poppel","tag-tag-deutschland-tour","tag-tag-tadej-pogacar","tag-type-article","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}