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Sciatic said:
You may know better than I do what riders want, but I’ve never understood the clamor among fans to do away with ties (I’m not speaking about futbol). Obviously in championship final you have to have a winner, but the rest of the time I just don’t seem to have that same gut response. Often life doesn’t provide clear cut winners and losers, I don’t know what’s so abhorrent about an occasional tie in sports. Just me I guess.
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GC riders don't care because a stage tie has no issue with GC. GC overall ties are settled by overall stage placings in that situation.
Sprinter's palmares are settled by less than a meter almost always. So does their pay scale so they want the win.
 
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it's actually not from the rulebook, but the "Practical Guide For The Finish Judge" , which is illustrated with pictures from 2001. So I wouldn't really be too sure it's up to date, or even binding.

In the "real" rules I only found the paragraph "If, after all technical means available have been exhausted, it is still not possible to separate riders for one of the first three places at the world championships or Olympic Games, these riders shall each be awarded the placing in question", which also would contradict the practice mentioned above. Couldn't find anything for normal road stages
 
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KenFiamingo said:
Belgian Championship U18 1986: Wilfried Nelissen and Serge Baguet had to redo their sprint (1km) after the finish photo turned out to be inconclusive.
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20 juli 1986: Baguet en Nelissen moeten sprint opnieuw rijden | sporza

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I would imagine that the finish photo equipment has gotten a bit longer in the long-ass time since 1986.

BTW, does the rule clarify where that 1 K is to be raced? Any 1 K stretch of road, or does it specifically have to be the last K of the race? I suppose this is back to the point about situations like this mostly arising in sprint finishes, but could you imagine having to to a standing start on the (super) PDBF?
Of course, using the actual finish could also be a logistical nightmare, what with riders still coming in.
 
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I just read in local media that VAR provider apologized. A football match was played in our championship last Sunday. Apparently there was an offside that prevented the penalty kick. It turned out there really was no offside involved. As cameras were not calibrated properly.

Considering things like photo finish isn't always positioned where one would expect. Lets say some line on the road. And considering technology isn't always 100%. As it still needs a human to be operated properly.

What happened yesterday hence should not happen in cycling in the future. Below some threshold, such as a hundred of a second.

Then it's a tie and sport wins. Not some impression of impeccable technology. That is mostly BS.
 
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