Please, oh great one, what would you recommend when riding 25KM in 32 minutes, with a separated shoulder?
Maybe ride 25km as fast as you can.
It sucks that he was 7s behind but the fact still remains that he was trying to do the minimum and got it wrong, he should suffer the consequences. He gambled and lost. Why should we bend the rules for that.
It would be different if he wasn’t gambling, if he just went out and said “I’m going to ride as hard as I can”, but he didn’t.
It seems heartless to say “he wasn’t trying his hardest” when he did something 99% of us couldn’t do with 2 functioning shoulders but that is the fact and he isn’t 99% of us, he is the 1%. If he had tried a little bit harder he would have made it.