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UEC explains the photo finish tech, not the image Ciccone asked for
The UEC issued a statement on Tuesday addressing Ciccone's photo finish questions by explaining how the system works. It said the EtherLynx Vision PRO X camera records the finish line 13,000 times per second, that two independent photo finish systems were used to verify the result, and that it will issue no further statements on the matter. Ciccone's request was specific: to see a photo finish that corresponds exactly to the actual finish line. That's not what the UEC published.
What this means
The UEC has said it will issue no further statements, leaving Ciccone's specific request for a finish-line-matched image unaddressed.
Ciccone has credited Evenepoel as the stronger rider — his ask, repeated after commissaires and federation technical staff had already explained the system to him, was to see a photo finish that corresponds exactly to the actual finish line. The UEC's statement instead explains that the horizontal axis of the composite image represents time rather than distance, which it says can create apparent distortions of wheels, bicycles and riders, and confirms that two independent photo-finish systems provided separate images to verify the result. None of that is the image Ciccone asked for. By announcing it will issue no further statements, the UEC has answered the question it chose to answer, not the one it was asked.
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