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Great research! But van Aart is the right winner. The photo finish picture is stated s the official result. Every athlete knows that, despite alignment errors of the equipment.

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True, though if Wout won by the rules but Tom crossed the finish line first that is not a great outcome.

Given that they are not necessarily the same, perhaps more accurate to say "So who crossed the finish line first?" in your article? We know who won.

As someone who has both won and lost bike races determined by photo finish, I enjoyed this article a lot. Well done sir!

Exactly. It's a bit arbitrary but it's the final call.

The idea of the race, bikes, and how we measure the whole thing is arbitrary to begin with :-)

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