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@Tricky_Business
You know all those replays they kept showing of the Chinese pair being dead level as they crossed the pursuiter's line are completely irrelevant don't you? The points in question are 15 meters either side of that which which would have been indicated with pads on the cote d'azur, giving a 30m changeover zone. If the following rider starts to pass the front rider before the first point then it's a DQ, if you haven't started passing by the second point then it's a DQ. Even just slightly overlapping wheels before the 15m point would lead to a disqualification.
Unfortunately there were no TV cameras on the changeover marks so I can't say for certain whether they should have been disqualified or not but I would have thought the comms would have there own camera or a line judge watching them.
It's not a massively complicated rule and it's been in place for some time so all the riders know about it, it's just a shame none of the commentators or TV director made an effort to even understand it as all the replays they kept showing of both incidents meant nothing.