Because MVDP lacks power when comes to sprint.

Because he is not a sprinter

The tour is just a warm up for him before the olympics.

Quick step is competing for the tour GC with remco so they dont have any sprinter in this tour so dont expect them to win sprint stages.

Chris Juul Jensen

@pmoormann He is still in the race. He probably didn't have the legs and told his team to not contest the sprint. I expected him to party a little too hard last night, but he is a professional. He is gonna go for another one for sure, but he has zero to lose. Astana could do nothing but make the time cut as a team and their sponsors are still going to be stoked about Cav winning his 35th stage with their name across his chest.

Cav worked pretty hard after his mechanical and his bike change. He may have felt cooked.

he is saving his legs for the mountains, race will finish in Nice.

For sure, a 39 year old sprinter who has been there. He knows his body. He either has it or he doesn't. Only Cav knows. He communicates to his team on how he feels. 1.5km to go or so, Astana was up there. Cav could have had a bad feeling and told his team to pull up. No Astana member was close to the front by about the final 1km. They are living and dying by the 39 year old legs. Astana didn't have a shot at the GC, but they are putting out amazing media coverage just bringing Cav. Winning a stage already, they are over the moon. I expect to see Cav going for it again in some of the flat stages coming up with the back to back flat stages as well as flat stages after the rest day. He isn't done with this Tour yet.

@@henoktesfaldet4517 He closed the door to the right whilst there was tons of space on his left. There was no justification for deviating from his straight sprint line. Jasper is a dirty sprinter, period.

Yasper blocksen dirty tricks FORCE them to compete stoppages

Van art 2nd incident

@henoktesfdet4517 Agree, looks like punishment depends on who you are. Jasper was always going to his right to get off mvdp slipstream and kept that line. He deviated less than bini who moved to his right then left.

@@MrChannyi think the only reason he was relegated was because he “endangered” wout by almost closing him out on the barriers while bini didn’t chop anyone with his double deviation. I do agree tho idk if what JP did warranted a relegation