There are two things the Dutch suck at - organising a national team to win a road race - and losing apparently. This appeal just did a huge disservice to Puck and made her luck like a v. Bad loser. Hardly a shock to find the UCI inventing rules and breaking its own - just wait until they decide yellow cards should be given in MTB and BMX as they are being so well used in the Vuelta !!
"Keep in mind that this was not a written instruction or an official communique. It was something said in the meeting…"
Considering the relative triviality of recording audio from the meeting, or even just taking notes on it, this should never happen. You can't expect people to follow rules that don't exist in some reference-able format.
Even if this "rule" did exist in writing, it'd be pretty easy to work around. Rissveds gave a good demo while following Batten's purportedly illegal attack—a crew member extended a bottle in her general direction and she smacked it out of their hand at speed.
"In light of that note four years ago, I’m sure the Dutch staff were poised to catch every last detail in this meeting." IYKYK. So much more humorous to leave it like that.
There are two things the Dutch suck at - organising a national team to win a road race - and losing apparently. This appeal just did a huge disservice to Puck and made her luck like a v. Bad loser. Hardly a shock to find the UCI inventing rules and breaking its own - just wait until they decide yellow cards should be given in MTB and BMX as they are being so well used in the Vuelta !!
"Keep in mind that this was not a written instruction or an official communique. It was something said in the meeting…"
Considering the relative triviality of recording audio from the meeting, or even just taking notes on it, this should never happen. You can't expect people to follow rules that don't exist in some reference-able format.
Even if this "rule" did exist in writing, it'd be pretty easy to work around. Rissveds gave a good demo while following Batten's purportedly illegal attack—a crew member extended a bottle in her general direction and she smacked it out of their hand at speed.
As usual, fantastic break down. I wasn’t aware it was oral instructions and it was the Dutch who protested.
"In light of that note four years ago, I’m sure the Dutch staff were poised to catch every last detail in this meeting." IYKYK. So much more humorous to leave it like that.
You may be one of the few who caught what I was saying there. Thank you.
Love a good deep dive on the rules.. Glad you got this one up!