That's a pretty silly way of looking at it considering the tech and position that Boardman used are banned for everyone else.
If you want to go that way, then the bloke in the fully faired HPV who did 80k is the Hour record holder and these UCI douchebags are fighting for nothing.
The benchmark is 56.375km. Until somebody beats that, it's still just a contest to see who can be best at not beating the true record.