Benji Naesen

posted on twitter do we know why he's disqualified i was extremely curious to know uh because it's obviously a long line of events at this point and uh i got multiple messages from riders and the s's in that race i won't name names because i don't feel like that's necessary for the the plot here um and the story that i was told is that he was stopped by well first of all that he

was going in the breakaway, took bead-ons, put a bead-on in his front torso, perhaps for aerodynamic purposes.

The people that messaged me about it couldn't confirm nor deny, because the intent is obviously in the head of Jan Willem van Schip.

And fairing, which is basically putting a bead-on in your chest to improve aerodynamics, is not allowed in the same sense that

Those front pockets are now coming in as a rule, for example.

But the beat on Faring thing was already a rule before.

I think he's at fault for doing this.

I think it's right to penalize him on it.

I haven't checked the rules whether a DSQ is the valid penalty for it, but I think he did fuck up in this specific case.

Now, I don't like the way the media represented it a little bit.

I feel like every time Fonscape gets disqualified,

Journalists put a picture on the article of Jan Willem van Schip with the tiniest handlebars from a few years ago.

That's not the setup he's been disqualified for.

It's not even the rule he's been disqualified for.

And I know they're maybe using stock images from the past of van Schip and so forth, but it is causing massive...

even massive insults towards him from people that are like, oh, what's this idiot doing?

Breaking the same rule five times in the span of five years, for example.

He's not being penalized for the same rules across any of these moments, by the way.

So I think it's a bit unfair how his reputation is being tarnished by the way it's being represented in the media.

And especially, for example, I think maybe a French media came out a few days ago about that stage four where