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Yes. I know from dot-watching the TCR last year that there are limits to how sure you can be exactly what route a rider has taken and you do get the odd rogue point, especially in narrow valleys, which confuses things.
An example of not covering the full route that cropped up on IndyPac is where there is a roadhouse that has two entrances one on either side. To begin with, I made a point of going out by the one that I came in on. But then I saw that others weren't doing that. Sometimes the entrances might be a km apart, so not utterly trivial. The purist (ie @skinny !) would say that you should go out by the same one as you came in by but I think very few riders did that.
Hard to demand a full GPS track from one of these as people's devices do crash on these long events. I don't have a full trace from either TCR or IPWR - I lost days on both and on TCR I had to navigate some of it from my phone maps.
However, on TCR, where there are contentious bits, a lot of effort is made to work out exactly where the rider did go and that would include requesting access to GPS files / strava accounts to see exactly where they did go. But TCR is much more heavily monitored than TABR.