Overview

• Race commissaires moved Danny van Poppel to the back of the first group for his Kassel sprint, stripping the Dutch champion of the stage victory.
• Sören Waerenskjold was declared the winner of Stage 3 and moved closer to the overall title after inheriting the result.
• The ruling stated van Poppel left his sprint line and impeded Matthew Brennan, and he was also shown a yellow card.
• Sportschau reported the caution was van Poppel’s fourth yellow card of the season under the UCI’s escalating warning system.
• Tadej Pogacar criticized the decision on Instagram as an “absolute joke,” while Waerenskjold said the relegation was correct but that he did not want to win that way.