Benji Naesen

But I think that DSQ was wrongful from my memory.

Now, if we then go to the first DSQ of this year, we go to the Tour of Hellas, a Greek race about...

a month ago roughly, just before the Giro d'Italia started, there he was disqualified while being in a breakaway for non-compliant position.

Non-compliant position is basically, back in the day, puppy paws was allowed.

So Cancelar did this a lot back in the day where you kind of lean on your road bike handlebars in the same way you'd lay on a TT skis on a TT bike, for example, for improving your aerodynamics.

And they implemented that rule because people were,

doing that in groups.

And in groups that can be dangerous because you don't have your hands on the brakes and so forth.

But then UCI implemented a rule against that where they tried to break down that possibility of doing that by saying that using your forearm as support is not allowed.

It's quite a vague term.

And they then basically send PowerPoints and images and so forth to teams and so forth to try and make it clear where the line is.

Yeah, I think Thomas De Gendt sent me that PowerPoint somewhere about a year, a year and a half ago.

But about this specific element, I want to say, I think it's not okay to have a guideline of interpretation next to the rulebook.

It needs to be in the rulebook.

That's my opinion.

It can be a drawing for all I care.

Yeah, and now specifically to this example of Jan Willem van Schip, he was in a breakaway and he did the thing where you kind of hold the hoods of your bike, but in doing so have your forearms as support on your handlebars.

And technically, by the letter of the law, that is not allowed.

I have a folder on my desktop, Patrick, of at least 20 images of riders who are doing that in races this year so far and did not get disqualified, nor got a yellow card for doing that in a race, including Jonas Vingegaard and so forth, high-level cyclists.

Sometimes not high-level cyclists.