Benji Naesen

That is now the case.

I think that should have been the case in the first place, but that one to the side, onto a more positive one.

In the past, the organizers' guidelines said the following.

So just to be clear, there's the UCI rules, which are applied by UCI commissaries on the reins, et cetera.

There's also a document on the UCI website called the UCI's organizers' guidelines.

I...

don't know if it's 100% required for an organizer to hold themselves accountable with every sentence in this organizers guidelines because the name is guidelines not rules but in there it said the finishing straight should be free of all obstacles both before and after the line that includes dangerous bends road narrowings roundabouts speed up speed bumps etc the finishing straight should be sufficiently long particularly if it is likely the peloton will arrive together to concess the sprint so

This is the guideline that we brought forward a few times when we have a sprint stage that ended up with a bend in the last 200 meters, for example, and therefore someone most likely crashed or some deviation happened that led to an issue, that kind of stuff.

But from...

I think these rules are coming into place at the end of the month, but I'm not completely sure.

From now on, UCI rules officially state that the finishing straight should be as long as possible, at least 200 meters.

And this is part of that segment about the UCI safety manager.

So the UCI safety manager is now responsible for checking whether the finishing straight is...

at least 200 meters as long as possible.

I think that's a big, good change, to be clear.

I think that should have already been in the rules to begin with, but I'm going to applaud them for adding this because it's a positive change in a positive direction.

This is especially important for events likely to finish in a bunch sprint is the last sentence there.

I don't know what superfluous means.

Okay, yeah.

I think this rule should apply to sprint stages, and I think they can make it more clear that it's...