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Rule 5.1 is what the UCI has done about it, so enforcing that consistently would be a new position the sport could learn from.
What would help the enforcement of 5.1 would be lanes and definitions of obstruction and endangerment. Obstructing – preventing the ability to make forward motion? Endangering – putting a rider in a situation where forward motion would cause a crash?
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The problem is Pog would argue he was obstructed, but van Baarle would probably argue Pog didn't have the momentum, space nor the legs to get stuck into the sprint but that he had all three. Who is right? How would you have shuffled those four riders into lanes? Also Pogacar shouldn't even have had van Baarle near him, he should have sprinted much earlier before he was backed into two more riders. I honestly think it was pretty fair.
Interestingly, Madouas was squeezed a little too but didn't complain.
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enforcing that consistently
UCI: "r u new here?"
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hippy
I hear you just genuinely trying to think it through aloud.
Sprinting is a mad man’s game and I don’t think there’s much that can be done about it. I also don’t know how we expect riders to know exactly where everyone is and what’s going on.
Not sure lines would clear this up though. We can see DVB deviates without the lines, but there’s still a judgement call to make regardless.