Another sprinter
Curious injury: Next tour driver gets out
Updated on July 18, 2025 – 5:00 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The French racing driver Bryan Coquard has to leave the Tour de France because of an injury. He contracted his injuries in an unusual way.
The list of sprinter that get off early at this year’s Tour de France will be longer. Bryan Coquard left the race on Friday after the mountain time trial. The Frenchman of the Cofidis team, in which the German driver Emanuel Buchmann also drives, had broken a finger on Thursday – trying to grab a catering bag with water bottles during the stage.
“I can no longer brake with my right hand. If I continue, I am a danger to others,” said Coquard at Eurosport. He still drove the time trial up to Peyragudes because the risk was manageable without many braking maneuvers.
For the German Sprinter Phil Bauhaus and Pascal Ackermann, this means one competitor – after the early exit of the Belgian sprint star Jasper Philipsen, who had fallen in the first week.
However, the chances of a classic sprint are rare: a mass sprint is expected in Valence next Wednesday at the earliest. And even at the traditional final stage in Paris, a sprint is not guaranteed. The triple climb on Montmartre makes him rather unlikely this time.