PhilGil has a Youtube channel and said the riders and ASO agreed the GC timing should be moved to 5km from the finish as they were worried about the run-in but UCI commissaires refused.
They don’t need UCI permission to neutralise mid-race. It could have been done, as it was in the Giro last year (before Astana head-butted the road sign).
PhilGil has a Youtube channel and said the riders and ASO agreed the GC timing should be moved to 5km from the finish as they were worried about the run-in but UCI commissaires refused.