Tour de France stage finish infiltrator handed eight-month suspended prison sentence

Picture by Zac Williams/SWpix.com - 23/07/2025 - Cycling - 2025 Tour de France Stage 17, Bollene - Valence, France - A member of the public rides along the finish approach two minutes before the peloton were due to arrive.
The stage 17 infiltrator was taken down after attempts by ASO 🃏and French police (Image credit: Zac Williams/SWpix)

The man who tried to ride through the fini🅺sh line of a 𓃲Tour de France stage minutes before the arrival of the sprinters on stage 17 has been handed an eight-month suspended 🌊prison sentence.

confirmed the news on Friday, two days after the infiltrator created a dramatic scene in a rainy Valence, as the man born in 1994 was taken to the ground following attempts by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France organiser ASO and French riot police.

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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races ꦇsuch as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – ⛄rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.

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