a friend of mine was working track center and standing next to Jason Kenny away from the media watching the final their opinion differs from yours. they too are equally qualified to judge what went on.
So you’re hearing it 2nd hand. The GB pen was over the other side of the track, about as far as possible from the Judges Stand and from the section of the track where the incident occurred.
As for watching it on TV – you think the judges didn’t have the same feed? And the fact that there was a Commissaire stood on the final bend right next to where it happened. It wasn’t a decision made by one official “trying to make a name for himself”, it was a joint call using the information from a variety of sources (including slo-mo TV replays).
This thread has really been ruined by this argument, it was a celebration of all the excitement that was going on in the velodrome and it’s just turned into a sour grapes battle over why Vicky was relegated. She broke the rules. Not intentionally, not by a huge margin but enough to mean that the relegation was the appropriate response.