Benji Naesen

One thing is certain.

I vividly remember that we looked back at this team two or two and a half years ago, maybe after Vincenzo Nibali retired, after returning to Trek, and we said, this team has no GC riders.

That is changing.

Not to win a Grand Tour, but he can podium one.

I don't think so either, but I'm also not sure how to feel about Mads Pedersen for the green jersey, for example, because in a Vuelta and a Giro, I'd say, yeah, if he starts Giro and Vuelta, then he's one of the favorites for the green jersey.

In the Tour de France, I'd like to say that, but when I think about Pedersen, I also think about he can win only one stage at the Tour de France.

Three, four years ago, I would have said yes.

Right now, his big sprints are not great.

He needs a versatile sprint.

He needs a breakaway opportunity to try and ruler his way to a victory in the way that he's done at the Tour de France now twice, if I recall.

That's the way I... I think he literally won a stage like that through the breakaway at the Vuelta last year, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, but Quintuple for a rider like Eulalio, what is that?

I still think he's not, by the way.

Is there a world where he was on minimum salary because he was a New Yorker?

Okay, ground scores and stuff behind us.

I want to jump into a topic that lies closely to my heart, UCI rules.

And there's been an update in the UCI rules, and there's also some other updates around the UCI that I've bundled into one topic.

And I want to start off with some safety-related rule changes in the past.

Listen to this, Patrick.

In the past, the UCI rules did not specifically state that the UCI safety manager is responsible for ensuring safety requirements to be observed.