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I have a vision of some kind of Wile E Coyote catapult propelling him through the 100m
When it comes to UCI commissaires, this is easily the most plausible explanation. The regulation as translated into English is all but incomprehensible.
'When I use a word,' commissaire Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.'
Unlikely; in the case of women the difference between the team sprint record (32.422) and the solo 500m TT record (33.010) is pretty small, especially in the context of what other people were doing at the meets where those two records were set, i.e. London seems to be faster all round. Essentially, the fact of riding in company exactly balances the use of tribars in the solo event, and would probably still do so if the lead rider stayed on the front for the full distance, with just the aero gain of having a following rider's bow wave filling her wake void.