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The UCI jury had no obligation to preserve sprint points earned 45 km from a finish that never happened — and no published rider statement actually disputes that logic. The "perplexed riders" framing is harder to verify than the decision itself.
Hayter's 20 intermediate sprint points in Villefranche-de-Conflent were real, earned in fine conditions well before hail and lightning hit the Col de Mont-Louis. But the jury's call to nullify all intermediate results on a cancelled stage follows standard race regulation — and Visma | Lease a Bike sports director Maarten Wynants publicly called the cancellation "a good call from the riders and organisation," with no dissenting voices from the peloton on the safety decision. What no published source has produced is a Hayter or Wenzel quote actually challenging the jury's rationale. The frustration is easy to infer; the confusion, so far, isn't on the record.
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