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Understandable on a human level if true, but hardly judicial, which is what the race jury is supposed to be. Ah well, comissaires, scrutineers and all other clipboard-wielding officious types are a bane of everyone's life at some point, I suspect.
Brommers-
Gord Fraser makes this point:
"Here's my beef. Why can't the UCI find some ex pros to take the comms course and insist on one at all times on the race jury? I'm constantly frustrated by officials quoting a rule book w zero practical race experience. A former bunch sprinter on the panel for flat stages and climber for the mountains."
Which is totally on point: ex-pros should be on any judicial panel. Strange that Demare's movement, which more than a few ex-riders and commentators have blamed for the crash, doesn't seem to been taken into account at all.
Jimmy_Fingers
There's no provision in the rules for appeals so I think what happened is that they came to a fair decision, Bora-Hansgrohe kicked up a stink, the Commissaires fucked them off.