After two weeks of getting boxed out, shut down, and forced to watch the green jersey slip away, Jasper Philipsen finally put an end to his Tour de France drought in Voiron.
Guided through a chaotic, attack-riddled 174.7-kilometer rolling stage by a Mathieu van der Poel lead-out, the Alpecin-Premier Tech sprinter out-kicked Mauro Schmid and Olav Kooij to snag his 11th career Tour victory. The win not only marks a hat-trick of consecutive Belgian stage wins, but it also slashes Mads Pedersen’s green jersey lead down to a razor-thin seven points before the race hits the final sprint days.