“That looked absolutely horrible”: Jasper Philipsen abandons Tour de France after heavy crash; “I didn’t realise how fast we go”: Cavendish’s first experience as Tour spectator; Fans “disgusted” with UAE Team Emirates’ AI helmet + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Tour de France weekend recap: GC gaps, race abandons, cobbled chaos… and the KOM point that floored two riders
Stage one of the Tour didn’t ease anyone in. Crashes, crosswinds and chaos reigned — and that was before Benjamin Thomas and Mattéo Vercher crashed while fighting over one polka dot point.
The KOM line was on cobbles, and as Thomas lunged for the point with a bike throw, his front wheel bounced out from under him. Vercher got caught in the mess and both hit the deck. Thomas still got the jersey, if only for a day. Worth the crash?
> Chaos as Tour de France riders crash while lunging for King of the Mountains point
Visma-Lease a Bike then lit it up in the crosswinds, splitting the bunch with 20km to go. Pogačar and Vingegaard made the front, dragging a handful of GC rivals with them. Evenepoel, Roglič and Skjelmose weren’t so lucky — they lost 49 seconds. Lenny Martinez dropped nine minutes, Alaphilippe six. Filippo Ganna abandoned after a crash. It was that kind of day.
Up front, Alpecin-Deceuninck pulled off a textbook lead-out, with Philipsen winning the sprint ahead of Biniam Girmay to take yellow.
Stage two saw van der Poel steal the jersey from his teammate, outsprinting Pogačar in Boulogne-sur-Mer after a punchy uphill finish, with the latter taking the polka dot jersey. Vingegaard was third, and Roglič and Evenepoel finished safely but are already playing catch-up in the GC.
Oh, and as might be evident from this blog, a spectator already nearly caused a crash trying to take a photo. Wait a second, I’m hearing there’s been a bike robbery too?
Welcome back, Tour de France.
Thieves steal 11 Cofidis bikes worth £125,000 at the Tour de France
> Thieves steal 11 Cofidis bikes worth £125,000 at the Tour de France
“He needs to be at home with us”: Jonas Vingegaard’s wife accuses Visma-Lease a Bike of “pushing him too far” with altitude training camps and not prioritising Dane’s GC challenge, but Visma racing chief dismisses concerns and says “sacrifice is necessary
Jonas Vingegaard might be third on GC after two strong stages, but his wife Trine Marie Hansen has turned the spotlight on Visma-Lease a Bike, accusing the team of overworking her husband, compromising his family life, and failing to back him fully in the Tour de France.
“Knowing Jonas as I do, I’d say the team is pushing him too far now,” she told Politiken. “I’m afraid he’s burning the candle at both ends. I think people sometimes forget the human being behind the athlete — and how to get the best out of him. It could all backfire.”
She criticised Visma’s repeated reliance on altitude training camps: “Jonas doesn’t recharge on another three-week altitude camp with the team. He needs to be at home in Denmark, with us, to feel truly himself.”
“He’s deeply attached to his routines. Sometimes he needs to reset in the calmest surroundings possible, just with his family. That’s a huge part of who he is and why he’s successful.”
Even when Vingegaard is home, Hansen said, the pressure doesn’t stop. “At one point, we decided to renovate the house together. Jonas realised he could rip out a kitchen, install a new one and lay down wooden flooring. The team wasn’t too pleased about that.”
In another interview with Jyllands-Posten, she criticised Visma for failing to contact the family after Vingegaard abandoned Paris-Nice with a concussion. “Everyone on the team knows we — his family — only heard about it through the television. It’s just bad form not to send a message to let us know he’s okay. I simply can’t understand it.”
She also suggested the team was not fully behind her husband’s GC bid. “If you also focus on stage wins for other riders, that can’t be used for Jonas. You can only have respect for how Tadej Pogačar does it. When he’s at the start of a race, there’s no doubt about who the leader is. Everyone knows his role. I think that’s super important.”
Trine added: “With two children, he does feel he’s missing out on life at home. That has to be weighed against the joy he gets from cycling. In many ways, the countdown to the end of his career began when we had our first child.”
Visma’s Head of Racing Grischa Niermann responded directly to the comments on Sunday, insisting the situation was “maybe taken a little bit out of proportion.”
“We have a very good working [relationship] together with Jonas, but also with Trine,” he said. “We always check all this stuff together. We discussed, for example, in the winter that Jonas would not go to altitude camp in February, and that he would stay with the family.”
“Of course, the sacrifice is necessary — Jonas knows that more than anybody else,” Niermann continued. “With the Tour preparation, he was away from home a lot, but that’s also why he’s in this shape now… by preparing him how we prepared him, he is in that shape that he is now.”
Vingegaard himself was more reserved when asked about the situation after stage two: “It’s a lot of training camps and altitude camps during the year, so of course it’s hard also on the family life. I’m still riding, so at least I haven’t had a burnout yet.”
Despite Visma planning to target stage two with Wout van Aert, it was Vingegaard who ended up sprinting against Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogačar — and finishing third.
“To be honest, today the result was better than expected,” he said. “We wanted to go for Wout today, but I think he didn’t have the legs, so then we tried to go for me or try to do something with Matteo. In the end, it turned out to be a good day.”
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Tour de France stage three preview: Valenciennes → Dunkirk
The Tour continues its northern loop today with 178.3km from Valenciennes to Dunkirk — a mostly flat stage that gives the sprinters another shot, but could easily catch out anyone dozing at the back.
There’s just one climb on the menu, the category-four Mont Cassel (2.3km at 3.8 per cent), and it arrives 30km from the finish — more of a nuisance than a launchpad. But it’s the run-in to Dunkirk that might get interesting, with long exposed roads along the Channel coast and a forecast that includes one familiar word: crosswinds.
Stage one’s echelons left several GC hopefuls scrambling to limit their losses. If it kicks off again today, there’s no reason we won’t see another round of panic and opportunism.
Jasper Philipsen is the man to beat in a straight sprint, but Tim Merlier, Jonathan Milan, Jordi Meeus and Dylan Groenewegen will all fancy their chances — assuming their teams keep them upright and in the front group.
Van der Poel starts in yellow, with Pogačar four seconds behind and Vingegaard at six. It’s not a day for huge GC shifts on paper, but this Tour’s already made a habit of ignoring the script.
And they’re off! Peloton gets away for the third stage in pouring rain
Anyone notice Tadej Pogačar, who’s gone full toadstool — helmet, jersey, even the shorts — the defending Tour champ is repping his KOM top spot perhaps a little too much.
Stage 3 – Let’s gooooooo 🎉
C’est Partiiiiiiiii 🎉 #TDF2025 pic.twitter.com/tz7fMwEVzp
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2025
“I didn’t realise how fast we go”: Cavendish watches first Tour sprint from the other side of the barriers — and gets a reminder of just how mad it is
Mark Cavendish might have stood on more Tour de France podiums than anyone in history, but stage two of the 2025 race gave him a brand new experience — watching a bunch sprint from the other side of the barriers.
“It’s the first Tour de France bunch sprint I’ve ever seen on the finish line,” he told TNT Sports with a grin, after watching Mathieu van der Poel edge out Pogačar and Vingegaard in Boulogne-sur-Mer. “Wow, we go fast. I didn’t realise how fast we go. You’re there doing it, but seeing it… it’s good, huh? I’m quite proud.”
Cavendish, who retired last year after achieving his long-time goal of surpassing Eddy Merckx’s stage win record, has been a constant presence at the Tour’s opening weekend — soaking up the atmosphere and reflecting on his new perspective.
“You see more from the other side, how special this race is,” he said. “As a rider, you get on the bus, you race, you get back, you get your massage, you go to bed. You know it’s special, you feel it’s special, but that is exemplified on the other side. You know why it’s important to the French public. I am loving it.”
This year’s race has also seen Cav honoured across France — most notably in Châteauroux, the site of his first-ever Tour de France stage win back in 2008. The town’s mayor, Gil Avérous, has announced it will be unofficially renamed Cavendish City when the race visits again.
“Châteauroux is incredibly special for me,” Cav said. “It was my first Tour de France win in 2008 and every time I’ve been there since, I was fortunate I got to win. It’s an important sprint stage. I was massively honoured — thank you to the city. I can’t wait until we go there.”
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Anna Henderson wins stage 2 of Giro d’Italia Women and takes maglia rosa in breakthrough WorldTour victory
Britain’s Anna Henderson stormed to her first ever WorldTour win on stage 2 of the Giro d’Italia Women, out-sprinting France’s Dilyxine Miermont at the summit finish in Aprica after the pair attacked with 40 kilometres to go and held off the GC favourites by 26 seconds.
It’s Henderson’s first Giro stage win, her first road race victory in four years, and enough to take the maglia rosa from Marlen Reusser, who finished fifth on the stage and now sits 15 seconds back overall.
Soraya Paladin took third from the chasing group, while Lotte Kopecky lost significant time, finishing 40th at over a minute and a half down. Elisa Longo Borghini stayed in touch with Reusser and remains 31 seconds back in the general classification.
“Oil money m************s won’t even pay for a graphic designer”: UAE Team Emirates unveil AI-designed helmet… and fans are not impressed
UAE Team Emirates rolled out what they’re calling the world’s first AI-generated helmet design on stage 3 of the Tour de France — a collaboration with MET Helmets and UAE-based tech company G42, whose generative AI apparently “interpreted movement through airflow and negative space.”
The result? Well, the internet had thoughts.
“Was wondering why UAE’s helmet looked so dogshit,” wrote one fan account. “Turns out it’s the first helmet designed by AI.” Another added: “Oil money m************s won’t even pay for a graphic designer.”
The pile-on didn’t stop there. One fan said simply: “Shame on you.” Another: “Pay real people.” Yet another user wrote: “Looks like trash, could’ve supported human creativity and have a 10x better design. What a shame.”
According to the team, the unique livery is meant to reflect how riders “transcend across mountains, coastlines and cities.” But your live blog host is probably more inclined to side with online backlash this time because it looks exactly like something made by a machine that’s never watched cycling, never ridden a bike, and never had taste.
“Some people never learn”: Tour de France spectator shoved aside by riders after stepping into road for photo and almost causing a crash in the peloton (+ TNT Sports panned for telling fans to “respect the race” as advert backlash continues)
Well, that didn’t take long. We’ve made it all the way to stage two before the first idiot with a smartphone nearly took out the peloton.
During yesterday’s run-in to Boulogne-sur-Mer, one enthusiastic (and extremely unaware) fan stepped into the road to snap a picture of the approaching bunch — apparently forgetting the speed that WorldTour riders tend to ride at — and don’t swerve around amateur photographers on demand. Consequently, Israel-Premier Tech’s riders were quick to shove him out of the way and avoid what could’ve been a mass crash.
TNT Sports, who shared the clip with the caption “Respect the riders. Respect the race! A close call for the Tour peloton,” might have hoped for a message of fan education — but instead got a swift pile-on themselves.
With many subscribers still fuming about the platform scrapping its ad-free coverage of the Tour de France, plenty of viewers took the opportunity to clap back.
“Can TNT respect the fans and race by showing an ad free stream?” wrote Alexander Bujak. Harvey Jones added: “Why is the ad free coverage gone. Breaking the one of the very things you sell this product with.”
The backlash follows the company’s price hike in January — a jump to £30.99/month that left many cycling fans paying more to see… well, more adverts. So when TNT tried to take the moral high ground on race etiquette, some weren’t exactly feeling the message.
As for the incident itself, Instagram commenters were — as always — on hand to say what everyone else was thinking:
“Some people never learn.”
“Totally thoughtless.”
“The modern curse of viewing life through the screen of a smartphone.”
“Saw so much of this today… people even climbing over barriers to get in front of us for a better view — out on the road! — and the gendarmes doing nothing.”
“There’s some absolute tools every year at this race!”
“It’s only stage two…”
And let’s be honest, they have a point. This wasn’t a one-off — the infamous “Allez Opi-Omi” crash in 2021 is still fresh in most people’s minds. That was when a woman brandishing a cardboard sign for her grandparents caused a huge pile-up on stage one, knocking Jumbo-Visma’s Tony Martin off his bike and setting off a massive domino effect. Four riders were forced to abandon. She fled the scene, turned herself in four days later, and was eventually fined €1,200 and ordered to pay a symbolic €1 in damages.
If the message was supposed to get through, it clearly didn’t. Because since then, we’ve had:
- Stage 15 of the 2023 Tour, when a selfie-taking fan accidentally elbowed Sepp Kuss, taking down half the Jumbo-Visma team, Egan Bernal and Biniam Girmay.
- Paris-Roubaix 2025, where British rising star Cat Ferguson crashed out after a fan stepped onto the cobbles mid-race.
- The Vuelta Femenina this May, when a spectator tripped and fell into the neutralised peloton, taking down Aniek van Alphen before the stage had even started.
…and many more.
At this point, you’d think the UCI might have a better answer than “please be respectful.” to deal with fans leaning in with phones, flags, signs, and sometimes even dogs spilling over on the racing road… As one commenter wrote: “When will this stop?”
> Remco Evenepoel crashes after loose dog runs into Giro d’Italia peloton
Yesterday’s stage was eventually won by Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Mathieu van der Poel, who beat Tadej Pogačar in an uphill sprint to Boulogne-sur-Mer, with the seven-time world cyclocross champ nicking enough bonus seconds to take the yellow jersey from his teammate Jasper Philipsen. Jonas Vingegaard rolled in third, while Remco Evenepoel and Primož Roglič already fell to GC gaps, trailing the leader by 49 seconds.
But yeah — the first crash-by-fan threat of the 2025 Tour has already come. And TNT’s timing for that “respect the race” message? Impeccably ironic.
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“We were riding in hell today”: Quick-Step’s Tim Merlier wins messy, chaotic Tour de France stage three as Evenepoel crashes in final kilometres
Tim Merlier emerged from a wreckage of wheels, wind and nerves to win stage three of the Tour de France in Dunkirk, surviving a messy, crash-ridden sprint and outsprinting Jonathan Milan in a photo finish to take his second career Tour de France stage win.
On a flat 178km route from Valenciennes, the peloton barely stirred for a breakaway — but the drama came later. The first blow was the loss of green jersey Jasper Philipsen, forced to abandon after crashing at the intermediate sprint with 60km to go.
Tim Merlier wins a chaotic sprint on Stage 3 of the Tour de France! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/pRJnsSDZaF
— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) July 7, 2025
The final hour unravelled fast. A solo move by Tim Wellens gave UAE the polka-dot jersey, while crashes thinned the pack behind. Einer Rubio, Alexey Lutsenko and Aurelien Paret-Peintre all went down, and with 3km to go, Remco Evenepoel and Geraint Thomas were caught in a pile-up, with Quick-Step boss confirming that the Belgian yellow jersey contender, who looked like he might have hurt his ribs, “seemed to be okay”.
Up front, the run-in to Dunkirk was absolute mayhem. A stiff headwind made timing everything, and teams jostled wildly for position through the final bends. Lidl-Trek led out hard, but the bunch splintered, and just metres before the line, another crash took down multiple riders.
Amid the carnage, Merlier launched late and edged past Milan on the line, with Phil Bauhaus taking third. He said: “It was a really hard battle, and it was difficult to get in position as the racing was hectic. I think I lost some meters and had to fight my way back to the front, so today I could take my second stage victory in the Tour de France. I had to use a lot of energy to get in position and stay there. I came to the Tour to win a stage and I have now achieved my goal.”
Meanwhile, the winner of last Tour’s green jersey, Biniam Girmay said: “It was hell today. Every time someone crashed next to me, my heart rate went to 300… I feel so sorry for all those who crashed. I’m just happy that I finished safely today. At one point, I even stopped pedalling because it was so difficult.”
Mathieu van der Poel retains the yellow jersey heading into stage four — but the opening sprint stages have already turned into a war of attrition.
“That looked absolutely horrible”: Green jersey Jasper Philipsen forced to abandon Tour de France after heavy crash at intermediate sprint
Green jersey Jasper Philipsen’s Tour de France is over after a brutal crash during the intermediate sprint on stage 3. As the peloton surged into full speed with 60km still to race, Intermarché-Wanty’s Laurenz Rex and Cofidis’s Bryan Coquard came together while fighting for position.
Coquard somehow stayed upright, but only just — unclipping and veering slightly to the left, shoulder out, and making contact Philipsen in the process. The Belgian had nowhere to go and was sent flying down, skidding painfully on his back across the tarmac.
The green jersey goes DOWN in the battle for the intermediate sprint and it looks like a bad one 💥
That might be the end of Jasper Philipsen’s Tour de France 💔 pic.twitter.com/oUbuDJzzh2
— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) July 7, 2025
Philipsen’s skinsuit was left in tatters and his right shoulder took the worst of it. He was tended to immediately by race doctors, who put his arm in a sling at the roadside. Alpecin-Deceuninck staff were quickly on the scene, waving his teammates on. It was clear: his Tour was done.
And what a cruel twist: Philipsen had opened the race in dream form, winning stage one and pulling on the yellow jersey for the first time in his career, before Mathieu van der Poel’s stage two victory kept it in the team. Now, not only is Philipsen out, but Alpecin’s perfect start has been shattered.
Online, fans and commentators were quick to respond. “That looked absolutely horrible. Devastating. Get well soon, Jasper,” posted one account. Another wrote: “When we said this stage wasn’t exciting enough, we didn’t mean that…”
While some described it as a “very unfortunate situation” with “nobody at fault,” others weren’t so sure. One viewer said: “To me, the way Coquard steers right with his elbow already out, it looks like he is fully aware there is someone on his right and he knows he has to barge him out of the way to make space.” Others blamed Jonathan Milan — winner of the subsequent intermediate sprint — saying he forced Coquard to swerve.
Perhaps most notably, no one seemed to blame Philipsen. The 27-year-old Belgian has faced regular scrutiny for his sprinting style, including a relegation earlier this year during the UAE Tour and accusations of “bullying” rivals during the 2023 Tour. But this time, the consensus was clear: Philipsen was simply the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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You'd have to be mad to back this
New party game. Find a generative AI picture and the first team that circles 10 obvious problems wins a shot of rum.
Say what you will about the braking efficiencies of both rim and disc brakes. Or of seemingly having only one pedal and crank. Or of the angled-in brake hoods on flat bars. Let alone the rearward facing handlebars. I'm so impressed though, by the chain that traverses one side of the bike, to switch side somewhere around the dropouts, to the other side of the bike! Every side's a drivetrain side!
@chrisonabike We live in terraced houses, so no garage.
@Shades They have a 5 bedroom house for the 4of them (2 parents, 2 children). Admittedly, the hall isn't wide but it's not as if they're short of space. I keep 2 of my bikes in the cellar.
In other news, researchers prove beyond doubt that water is indeed wet.
And why are they not heavily de-starred by NCAP? The rot started with the Nissan Qashqai which used loopholes on bonnet safety regulations that didn't adequately include the headlight lenses, they put deep soft tissue penetrating ridges into the lens mouldings that increased their height and the aggressiveness of the look of the car but made it much more dangerous to any vulnerable roaduser. Unfortunately the raised stance and batmobileish looks appealed to buyers, particularly women and the whole industry surged in that direction. Now much worsened with the seeming unstoppability of the Range Rover look.
@mdavidford Most importantly, will someone name a range of exotic (well, exotic for the 1980s) snacks after me?
@mctrials23 Nerdy sort of fact, if the RTW challenge was to cycle round the equator, which would make sense in a way with that being the longest circumference of our oblate spheroid, it would only take 8,714 kilometres of cycling as the rest of the 40,075km would be by boat.
23 thoughts on ““That looked absolutely horrible”: Jasper Philipsen abandons Tour de France after heavy crash; “I didn’t realise how fast we go”: Cavendish’s first experience as Tour spectator; Fans “disgusted” with UAE Team Emirates’ AI helmet + more on the live blog”
Riders endangered by
Riders endangered by spectators in France, while in Germany it’s the spectators in danger from the riders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c20n595zyelo
Get your numbers right. Van
Much more the first than the second, though.
I genuinely don’t get why
I genuinely don’t get why people want to take pictures, they’ll never be the quality of a pro and I’ll accept your word that you were there. I’m not interested in a badly framed, badly taken image that does the sole purpose (in this case) of demonstrating what an ignorant muppet you are!
Van der Poel is not “three
Van der Poel is not “three times world cyclocross champ”. He’s won the championship seven times.
But he’s been champion 2015
But he’s been champion 2015-16, 2019-22, and 2023-present – I make that three times.
Not 2016!
Not 2016 or 2022!
He was reigning champ at the
He was reigning champ at the start of those years until the race took place.
Well yes, but the convention
Well yes, but the convention is that a person/team is only named as champion over two years if the competition stretched over two years, e.g. Liverpool are the champions for the 2024–2025 season. For a one-off event it’s just the year it happened, Remco is the 2024 Olympic champion, not the 2024-2028 Olympic champion.
Yes, but this is no place for
Yes, but this is no place for your facts and whatnot.
Has Pogi ever actually worn
Has Pogi ever actually worn the dotty jersey before? I mean, as in actually wearing the kit in a Tour stage.
Yup.
Yup. Stage 18 of the 2020 tour.
Definitely in 2020 he held
Definitely in 2020 he held and wore the polkadot for a day (he was holding the white jersey as well at the time but the polkadot takes precedence), then relinquished it to Carapaz, then took it back along with the yellow jersey on the penultimate day’s time trial.
‘Dad was killed by a driver
‘Dad was killed by a driver using her phone’ (BBC)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8krpz89xeo
According to the article, she
According to the article, she sent 19 messages across two messaging platforms in the 12 minutes before she killed Mr Morris. I hope she never drives again
LTNs reduce deaths and
LTNs reduce deaths and injuries within their boundaries by a third without increasing deaths and injuries on the periphery:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/londons-low-traffic-zones-cut-deaths-and-injuries-by-more-than-a-third
vdP looks damn fine in yellow
vdP looks damn fine in yellow.
I reckon the ‘AI design’
I reckon the ‘AI design’ thing is just cover for the fact that someone accidentally left that helmet on the stovetop.
How can something so dull,
How can something so dull, and by it’s very definition, uninspired, be so rage-inducing and controversial?
[I][B]That is the power of AI.[/B][/I]
Engagement is relativistic; KPIs can always be inflated if standards fall. Therefore, by exploitation of the lowest common denominator we can reduce costs, we can reduce capability, we can reduce effort, and we can drive up community engagement numbers, regardless of the value of interaction.
How much does it cost? Massive energy bills, hyperinflation of stock markets with the inevitable crashes to follow, cannibalistic end to intellectual growth in the technology sector.
But by giving away your data, it’s virtually free to you, the end user*.
(* Just don’t ask what we’re going to do with all that info, we don’t even know yet)
Chapeau Anna, well deserved.
Chapeau Anna, well deserved.
Is that the stupidest cop in
Is that the stupidest cop in France? He just grabs Philipsen and hauls him up, and drags him to the side. The doctor is nearly there to check Philipsen out – he should have been left on the ground till there was medical advice to move him, and the cop should have gone past and directed traffic away from the group around Philipsen. Not literally yank him up on to his feet!
Stupid flic!
Is that the stupidest cop in
Is that the stupidest cop in France? I’d say he’s an average French copper – he’s got no clue, and he isn’t trianed or qualified to manage this situation. Cyclists or motorists, nobody should be allowed to touch an injured person but competent paramedics.
About AI generative deign –
About AI generative deign – those comments from people who have no idea how design engineering works now. That 2014 BMC bike? One of the earliest to use AI generative design. Those cranks? Those aerobars? All with design tools that use generative processes to optimise the design. All using a designer or design team to manage the process. It’s like shouting at a graphic designer for using Photoshop (which has AI tools in it too now). People must think you just say what you want, hit Enter and AI designs it for you.
Go back to shouting at UAE team for being sponsored by a brutalist oil sucking state.
I think you’re missing the
I think you’re missing the point. UAE used slop instead of a graphic artist for the abstract colour pattern. MET may have used GSD for the helmet development, but that’s not what’s at issue here.
Generative Shape Design requires a design engineer to set the boundaries, limits and interfaces. The algorithm then solves down the possibility space using force as a function (typically in the form of internal stress and strains, and aerodynamic loadings) to produce a part with objective measurable performance against the design requirements.
That is not the same as recreating an amalgamation of (stolen) JPEGS based on the similarity of key words.