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Because this is a translation from the French/Swiss/UCI special Esperanto, you can simplify it by removing the word 'by'. Then it makes sense. Although we stil don't get conformation of what 'draw away' means, we take it to mean get yourself out and away from where you rode your lap (nominally the sprinters lane).
If rider 2 is already overlapping underneath you 15m before the end of your lap then you are considered to have begun drawing away. Makes sense to me.
As has been said, and will surely happen now, the rules will be amended to make them easier to interpret. And then hopefully we won't see perfectly good races ruined by petty minded little hitlers with overinflated egos.