Alright, so welcome to this video on why I think Cavanaugh should be disqualified slash relegated from the Tour de France today. Now first of all we've got the rule that is important. Riders shall be strictly forbidden to deviate from the line they select when launching the sprint and in so doing, endadering others. Now the endadering other part is always a bit questionable, no one knows what that actually means, but the point about deviating from his line is very clear. And we're about to see why I think Cavanaugh should be relegated. Now firstly I am a massive cat fan, love the man, so it's not nothing to do with him. It's just to not applying laws consistently which annoys me a lot and which is why I'm going to make this video. So we can see here that Cavanaugh is in the green, I'll put the laser pointer on just to make it a little bit easier to see myself. Cavs here, then we've got Merlea, then we've got Philipson and luckily there's actually a pet line. It does deviate, the line doesn't actually change, but when we look at it, the point I'm going to analyze it from, it is perfectly straight. So it's very easy to see exactly what happens. So first of all, Cavanaugh decides to launch, right? So he's going off Merlea's wheel which is fine. Cavanaugh is on the right hand side of the line which is fine. And Philipson who's basically the main sprinter is on the left hand side of the line, this is fine. So what we expect is going to happen is that we're going to have Cavanaugh moving this way, him moving that way, and it will all be fine like a normal sprint. However, we don't have that. Cavanaugh goes right, unfortunately there seems to be a umbrella in the middle of the screenshot, but anyway, that is neither here nor there. Cavanaugh just goes on the right, Merlea is in the middle who's leading him out and Philipson is on the left. Now we're going to change another one. Cavs decide to sprint straight, right? Cavs on the right hand side of this line. Cavs decide actually I want to move across. So first of all, he clips Merlea, which I think doesn't really have an outcome on the end of the sprint, but he definitely clips him. If we look at here, he's there and then he's across him, so not good. Philipson is on the left hand side of the sparrer here, right? And behind him is slightly irrelevant to this because he's quite far behind and doesn't really actually impact the sprint at all. Cavs now decide that actually from here, he wants to go across. So we look forward, now Cavs on the line. Now Cavs on the line and what he's done is he's chopped Merlea, right? Now this is also for Philipson to stop peddling because he's about to chop him too, which is the classic Cav. So he's now moved onto the right hand side of the barrier on the line. And he can't really tell from a screenshot, but what ends up happening is that Philipson has to stop peddling because he basically comes across him. And it's like a minute second, but he has to stop peddling for like one pedal stroke and that's enough for Cav to win. And so the point is this, is that if we watch it on this side, he should just continue completely on the right hand side of the thing. He chops him across and basically force Philipson to move to the left here. So Philipson's like literally right by the line, two slots forward, he has to go all the way across because Cavs chopped him. And I haven't really found the perfect screenshot to show how he chopped him, but you can see here, like he's forced him, forced Merlea to stop peddling, which then forced, he did exactly the same with Philipson. And I just think you really have to be consistent and apply a rule that if you deviate from the line, which Cav in this clearly has, we literally have a white line, then he has to be de-cute. And like I don't really see. And you can see his protests at the end, Philipson, because he knows that he's cut straight across him. And then he just stopped peddling for one pedal stroke. And like 65K now, have you stopped peddling for one second? Not even one second, just one pedal stroke. The amount of like deceleration really out compared to Cav accelerating, you're never going to come past him. So yeah, in my opinion, it's very simple. He starts on one side of the line, starts on one side of the line, ends up on the other. So that's not straight. And if it's not straight, then this is against the rules. If it's against the rules, then you should be relegated to the last on the main group. But it won't happen because it's Cav and Cav knows exactly what he's doing. And Cav knows if he goes just across enough, the front wheel, it will stop them running in the spring, but he won't get de-cute. He's done it before, he'll do it again, which is fine, but it's against the rules. So I just don't know if some of the UCI can't punish them. Because they only have seen to do actual tape punishment against riders when it's big incidents and there's actual crashes. But if you punish people for doing things like this, then people won't have the big crashes. But that's too complicated for the UCI. And they can't understand that, mate. That is like next level thinking. The UCI comment says, they're like, crash, no. Okay, it will happen. And it's like, no, no. You punish people for breaking the rule consistently, and then you don't have big crashes. But as I said, that's too next level thinking. If I told them that, they'd be mind-boggled. They'd just be like, but, but, but it's Cav. We need them to win 34 stages to get the start, like, get the storylines. And it's like, well, yes, but you need to punish people for breaking the rules. Otherwise, you get what happens in Poland, and we all know what happened there, and it wasn't good. Because he got away with it before all of Grotovegin, and he did it again, and he caused a really bad crash. But anyway, cheers for watching. Hope you'd enjoy. We'll see you at the next one.