The man who attempted to cycle across the finish line of the 17th stage of the Tour de France just minutes before the sprinters arrived has been sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended.

The news was confirmed by AFP on Friday, two days after the dramatic episode that occurred in the rain in Valence, when the man, born in 1994, was stopped on the ground by the organizers of the Tour de France (ASO) and the French riot police.

After being apprehended, the intruder was arrested on Wednesday and placed in custody. He had attempted to complete the stage finale shortly before Jonathan Milan's victory, wearing a Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale jersey and a black helmet.

Prosecutor Laurent de Caigny specified the charges: "Entering a sports competition area and disrupting the competition, refusal to comply, and assaulting a public official."

In addition to the suspended sentence, the man was banned from entering any sports facility for five years, having already been convicted three times. He was also ordered to pay €500 in compensation to the CRS police officer who fell to the ground while attempting to stop him at the finish line.

This was not the first incident during the 2025 Tour that required police intervention at the finish line, after ASO general commissioner Stéphane Boury had already had to intervene to stop a protester shortly before the riders' arrival on stage 11 in Toulouse.