🚨 Tour de France 2025 Jury Report: Who Got Fined, Penalized — or Yellow-Carded?

The Tour de France is more than just watts, wins, and yellow jerseys — it’s also about discipline. And in 2025, the race jury had their hands full.

From sticky bottles to dangerous driving, food zone violations to waste mismanagement, the peloton tested the limits — and sometimes crossed them. And for the first time in recent memory, even the jury penalized one of its own.

Here’s the full lowdown of the most notable and bizarre fines, penalties, and yellow cards from stages of Le Tour 2025.

🏁 Top Offenders & Most Unusual Moments

🧾 Stage-by-Stage Breakdown: Who Slipped, Who Snapped

🔹 Stage 20 – Nantua to Pontarlier

🚗 Surprise yellow card! Race jury driver Ismael Mottier penalized for a dangerous overtaking maneuver in La Plagne.

🔹 Stage 19 – Albertville to La Plagne

Jhonatan Narváez fined 500 CHF and docked 25 UCI points for littering.

🔹 Stage 18 – Vif to Col de la Loze

Sticky bottles and chaos!

• Lenny Martinez caught red-handed, loses 10 sec and 8 mountain points.
• Roman Kreuziger, Kévin Vauquelin, Laurent Pichon: 200 CHF for same offense.
• Sergio Higuita: 500 CHF + 25 UCI pts for waste.
• Jonas Rickaert & Amaury Capiot: 500 CHF + yellow cards for intimidation (from Stage 17).

🔹 Stage 17 – Bollène to Valence

Soudal Quick-Step’s Pascal Eenkhoorn warned for an unclear bib number.

🔹 Stage 16 – Montpellier to Mont Ventoux

Alpecin-Deceuninck trio punished:

• Rickaert & Verstrynge: sticky bottles — 200 CHF
• SD Gianni Meersman: 700 CHF for sticky bottles & ignoring commissaires

🔹 Stage 15 – Muret to Carcassonne

• Mike Teunissen: 200 CHF sticky bottle
• Dmitriy Fofonov (SD): 500 CHF
• Victor Campenaerts: 500 CHF + 25 pts lost for littering

🔹 Stage 14 – Pau to Luchon

INEOS SD Oliver Cookson: hits a spectator, gets a yellow card and a fine.

🔹 Stage 13 – Loudenvielle to Peyragudes (ITT)

Grischa Niermann (Visma): 500 CHF for car rule violation

🔹 Stage 12 – Auch to Hautacam

• 4 DSs fined for dangerous driving
• Jordan Jegat: 200 CHF + 10 sec + 15 pts lost for slipstreaming a car
• Matthew Hayman (Jayco): yellow card

🔹 Stage 11 – Toulouse circuit

• Mick van Dijke: 500 CHF + 25 pts for trash
• Aike Visbeek (Intermarché SD): warned
• Tadej Pogacar crash: controversial but no penalty for Johannessen

🔹 Stage 10 – Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore

10+ people fined!

• Sticky bottles, illegal feeds, waste, and multiple yellow cards
• Matteo Tosatto (Tudor SD): 1,000 CHF for feed zone violation

🔹 Stage 8 – Saint-Méen to Laval

• Jonathan Milan: 500 CHF + 10 pts lost despite winning
• Paul Penhoët: 200 CHF + 10 pts
• Arnaud De Lie: 200 CHF for public urination
• Benoît Vaugrenard (SD): 500 CHF

🔹 Stage 3 – Valenciennes to Dunkirk

Crash chaos!

• Bryan Coquard & Edward Theuns: 500 CHF + 13 pts + yellow card
• Danny van Poppel: relegated, fined, docked points
• Davide Ballerini: same penalties minus relegation

🧹 What’s the Bigger Picture?

While some violations are tactical (sticky bottles, car drafting), others highlight real safety issues. Multiple infractions by sports directors and even the jury itself raise questions about race logistics and vehicle management — especially in crowded Alpine descents and chaotic sprint finishes.

From a PR and regulation standpoint, the yellow card for a race jury driver is a headline in itself. It sets a precedent and shows even officials aren’t above the rules.

📊 Summary Table of Notable Penalties

The 2025 Tour de France was not only a battle of strength and speed — it was a test of rules, boundaries, and discipline.

🚴 Winners stood on podiums —
💸 Rule breakers stood in front of the jury.

And in one surreal twist, even the jury stood in front of itself.