Ivan Basso

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• OnlyTrueFalcon06-10-2026
  The background is the same slice of finish line at a different time. It is blocked from view when a cyclist in in the camera's super narrow view. It makes sense to me. Remco won.
• OnlyTrueFalcon06-10-2026
  If I understand the explanation of slices of time, that means that the background which is not blocked by the presence of a rider or a bike in every slice of time is the color of the finish line. In fact, the same slice of the finish line is actually the background. Correct?
• Cyclingsbestfan06-10-2026
  Yes I follow, but Ciconne is not happy because he can't see the actual line put down on the road. The system is correct and I can understand why he is unhappy. You will have seen it yourself when the broadscaters replay the photo finish, The line on the road is seen.
• StefanD06-10-2026
  The whole picture (right to left) is the finish line. Imagine it as just a vertical line of pixels at the finish line - photographed 13000 times per second. Then stacked from right to left. Thats why the spokes look so strange. For us not all vertical lines are shown, because everything would be streched quite long - the organizers can zoom in very precisely. They have over 30 lines where Remcos wheel is in the picture and Ciccones is not. In fact - if one person would pass the line at half the speed as the others, he would be stretched to twice the length that the others. Same can be seen at wheels and everything else. I have not seen the race, but from the picture Ciccone seems to have come faster from behind. Because he is "shorter" and his rear wheel passed the line earlier.
• paultryan200206-10-2026
  Was the judge a Belgian like when Tom Pidcock was robbed of Amstel Gold.🤣🤣😅😅😅😅
• Hills3306-10-2026
  It would have been Pog 4 TdFs and 1 Giro, and Jonas 3 TdFs, 1 Giro and 1 Vuelta. A rough equivalence, I know, but there would have been much talk of Jonas being as good as Pog in grand tours.
• Hills3306-10-2026
  Yes, Slovenian Cycling said how devastated they were that Tadej could not take part, as it actually was meant to be a celebration for him. And that was a very low-budget, make-shift appearance. It's not like they hired an open-topped car.
• Lozza06-10-2026
  TdF GCs: Pog 5, Jonas 2, so no par in your scenario.
• Cyclingsbestfan06-10-2026
  So in the phot above Remco has clearly won, but Ciccone is saying the actual finish line marking on the ground is not shown. Only that red line? I don't follow the technicalities of why the actual finish line is not seen in the picture?
• Lozza06-10-2026
  What a d**k! If Pogi hadn’t shown up can you imagine how disappointed the Slovenian fans would have been after the already massive disappointment of his not being able to race?!