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Rules, cameras, rules, Geaux Race, Hour Record, rules, Giro, rules, Women’s Tour, rules, Chongming Island, rules, Tour of Californiazation.
Given Cavendish wasn’t endangering others (from my POV), it wasn’t against the rules to change lane. After all it’s ‘and, in so doing,’ not ‘or, in so doing’.
Yep—that interpretation is very much what a historical examination of high-profile rulings suggests. See How the Race Was Won – Rules of the Group Sprint.
Arbitrary application of the rules has the potential to open up fraudulent acts. When race organizers, officialdom or sport power brokers have a particular agenda and you find yourself standing in the way, watch out.
I’m waiting for the next big conspiracy so 1 in 4 of us deluded cycling fans can have something to get paranoid about.