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That's all well and good - but when you've just been dropped because of a puncture and the peleton is rushing off I would imagine the last thing on your mind is line 7, clause 3b, page 3022 of volume 7 of the UCI handbook.
Or it's a calculated risk (Froome in 2013 taking an illegal gel, cost him 20 seconds, but bonking could have lost him the tour).
Anyway, I'm using this as a way of procrastinating, but I agree that consistency is a problem, yet it's probably most important to use the rules when it's a GC contender who is effected by them.
That's all well and good - but when you've just been dropped because of a puncture and the peleton is rushing off I would imagine the last thing on your mind is line 7, clause 3b, page 3022 of volume 7 of the UCI handbook.